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Meanings of vapourish in English
Synonyms
Examples for "vaporous"
Examples for "vaporous"
1
On the side above the woods, the sky was dark and vaporous.
2
A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box.
3
If they were both vaporous, there would be a gradation between them.
4
The 'Clouds' drip with mist, and are dim with aërial vaporous effects.
5
The Magician's aura immediately snapped alight, sizzling yellow and vaporous around him.
1
Garman's was the victory, the victory of bitter knowledge over the vaporish ideals of youth.
2
Far off across the glittering ocean of sand and alkali a yellowish cloud-almostvaporish, arose.
3
No wonder the political writing in the press seems to us vaporish and without definite aims.
4
It is not a thin, vaporish flat, without depth or density; and its circumference exceeds that of the earth.
5
A vaporish place, too delicate and subtle for such fun-loving, corpulent specimens of the Creator's wisdom as old Jack Falstaff.
1
But his arguments were vapourous enough and made little impression on Barneveld.
2
Her geometry had been fluid, or rather, vapourous, and had floated away, unthought of and unregretted.
3
Suddenly the horizon was enveloped in a vapourous fog, and seemed to contract until it was close around us.
4
I had reached, as it were, a higher level of that mountainous and vapourous visions, the heaven of a higher levity.
5
We were in July now, and misty, vapourous clouds moved slowly over the blue sky, seeming to intensify the heat of the unclouded intervals.
Usage of vapourish in English
1
If he do marry, he doubts he shall have a vapourish wife.
2
The conception is generally vague, vapourish, and metaphysical.
3
A man had better be plagued with all the curses of Egypt than with a vapourish wife.
4
I feel sad at times, and vapourish.
5
In it I acquainted her with the house I was about taking; and with Mrs. Fretchville's vapourish delays.
6
Now this letter gives the servant the small-pox: and she has given it to her unhappy vapourish lady.
7
He even launched into an ethnographic digression: the German was vapourish, the French woman licentious, the Italian passionate.
8
Sir Willoughby dispersed her vapourish confusion.
9
She was a wishy-washy person, sentimental, vapourish, altogether feeble, and she intensely admired Ida Palliser's vigorous young beauty.
10
But a man cannot be ill, or vapourish, but thou liftest up thy shriek-owl note, and killest him immediately.
11
A man who wills fiercely to win the heart of a weak and vapourish woman MUST succeed, if he have opportunity enough.
12
Post-card pictures had given them no idea of the energy of her large gesture, or how her heaviness becomes light among the vapourish elements.
13
'Yes, yes; but George Sand was such a peremptory fellow, and Musset such a vapourish young person.
14
If he do marry, he doubts he shall have a vapourish wife.
15
The conception is generally vague, vapourish, and metaphysical.
16
A man had better be plagued with all the curses of Egypt than with a vapourish wife.
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