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Significados de
portentous
em inglês
Puffed up with vanity.
pompous
overblown
pontifical
grandiloquent
Termos relacionados
pretentious
Ominously prophetic.
foreboding
fateful
Termos relacionados
prophetic
prophetical
Sinônimos
Examples for "
pompous
"
pompous
overblown
pontifical
grandiloquent
Examples for "
pompous
"
1
Its capital runs into millions; its prospectuses are
pompous
;
its pay-roll mysterious.
2
Many say his at times schoolmasterly manner of explaining issues sounds
pompous
.
3
The
pompous
collaborator stepped forward, and Kira realized her opportunity had come.
4
The younger man ignored the
pompous
tone of this speech; he nodded.
5
The heavy,
pompous
clouds were floating in the sky over their heads.
1
But many others felt the new year holiday saga had been
overblown
.
2
A sizable minority of Americans continue to think coronavirus concerns are
overblown
.
3
But McGregor said all the concern about dangers proved to be
overblown
.
4
The collage effect is brilliantly achieved technically but at times seems
overblown
.
5
In other words, they say fears of a skills shortage are
overblown
.
1
M. Edgeworth put on his
pontifical
robes, and began to celebrate mass.
2
Expenditure, always charming, becomes under these circumstances a sacred and
pontifical
act.
3
I noted it, I think, in the case of the
pontifical
feminine dress.
4
They passed between the
pontifical
guards, who gave the priest the military salute.
5
A
pontifical
and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth.
1
It was
grandiloquent
,
and it often took long to reach the point.
2
He preferred, in his
grandiloquent
way, to call a spade a spade.
3
The image suggests a
grandiloquent
eccentric, a man engaged in endearing folly.
4
He made her a
grandiloquent
bow and sat down at his desk.
5
They say that he lacked inspiration, and was vulgar, bombastic, and
grandiloquent
.
Of momentous or ominous significance.
prodigious
Termos relacionados
important
significant
Uso de
portentous
em inglês
1
But it was a
portentous
moment in Irish commercial and social history.
2
The political aspects of the times were now
portentous
in the extreme.
3
The situations of the principal powers of Europe are singular and
portentous
.
4
But there is something
portentous
in the change in Chichester, said Malling.
5
Such was the matter-of-fact manner in which the
portentous
news was announced.
6
Tea was brought in by
portentous
,
powdered footmen in scarlet and gold.
7
That would be the most
portentous
,
the most awe-inspiring event in history.
8
The
portentous
tone of the Frenchman's words was born of bitter experience.
9
Perhaps because I'm more
portentous
than they are, she said, and smiled.
10
The dinner had
portentous
suggestiveness; the Leidchardt'stonians were at first rather difficult.
11
Anthony Hopkin's Odin also returns to deliver yet more
portentous
fatherly wisdom.
12
Black clouds hung in huge,
portentous
masses over, the vault of heaven.
13
There was something heavy,
portentous
,
in the air of this June evening.
14
The amount of reading that has gone to it is almost
portentous
.
15
The opening is
portentous
and soon becomes a driving whirlwind of tone.
16
This is true, and it is what makes the present situation
portentous
.
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