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单词 fastuously
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fastuouslyadv.

Brit. /ˈfastjʊəsli/, /ˈfastʃʊəsli/, U.S. /ˈfæstʃ(əw)əsli/
Forms: 1600s– fastuously, 1700s fastously.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fastuous adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < fastuous adj. + -ly suffix2.
Now rare.
In a fastuous way or manner; esp. haughtily, arrogantly, with excessive pride, vanity, or self-importance; (later also) in a manner characterized by ostentation or indulgence; showily, extravagantly, expensively.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adverb]
fastuously1654
pensily1725
with one's head in the air1788
pretentiously1848
uppishly1911
snottily1927
snootily1940
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adverb]
boggishlya1375
with great renowna1400
jettingly1440
flourishingly?1545
rufflingly1575
flaunt-a-flaunt1576
peacock-like1576
peacockwise1577
peacockly1580
aflaunt1584
vauntingly1593
wealth boastingly1593
prankingly1610
fastuously1654
ostentativelya1658
ostentously1665
ostentatiously1671
showily1755
violently1771
paradingly1792
peacockically1834
peacockishly1834
pretentiously1848
ostensibly1855
slangily1858
peacocky1860
splurgily1887
swankily1924
glitzily1982
1654 J. Crandon Mr. Baxters Aphorisms Exorized & Anthorized i. xxiv. 293 Bare negations of Conclusions being the best way of answering, where they are peremptorily, and fastuously posited, without any premissed reasons from whence to draw them.
1728 R. North Mem. Musick in R. North on Music (1959) xiv. 355 He [sc. Nicola Matteis] was heard play at Court but his manner did not take, and he behaved himself fastously; no person must whisper while played, which sort of attention had not bin the fashion at Court.
1840 Manch. Courier 5 Dec. 4/4 He mounts the tribune and fastuously proclaims it to have been his intention to wage war against the parties to the treaty of July.
1881 H. M. Trollope tr. C. Letourneau Sociol. based upon Ethnogr. iii. xiii. 240 In Siam the bodies of the chiefs are burned at great expense upon a fastuously-arranged funeral pile [Fr. sur un fastueux bûcher], erected at great cost both of time and money.
1949 M. F. K. Fisher Alphabet for Gourmets 121 I forget what it used to cost, in those happy vanished days, to lunch and loll and sup thus fastuously.
1964 P. White Burnt Ones 245 The great cat, after entering the room fastuously, trying out his eyes, his claws, had begun to back against the furniture, his thrilling tail perfectly erect.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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