| 释义 |
pseudery colloq.|ˈsjuːdərɪ|
[f. pseud a. (n.) + -ery.]
An affected or pompous manner of expression, usu. with intellectual pretensions; an example of this.
1972Guardian 24 Feb. 10/3 There's nothing like an overt piece of pseudery to make one feel all lilywhite. 1975Daily Tel. 30 Aug. 6/2 In another paper, a psychiatrist solemnly reported his finding that ‘in general fat people do not go to university’... These farragoes of improbable pseudery..tend to be prefaced by an enormously portentous address. 1976Broadcast 12 Jan. 9/3 Capital's Sunday pseudery gets the boot. 1978Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 12/6 Best of all is Mr Ward's pithy dismissal of the sort of supernatural pseudery that has enthralled the credulous since the beginning of time. |