| 单词 | with an air |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswith an air a. In singular. Chiefly in with an air: in a showy or affected manner. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] pensifulnessc1450 affectation1548 affection1570 affectedness1622 lady aira1637 fastuousness1649 gentility1650 fastuosity1656 vapouring1656 flatulency1662 hoity-toity1668 pretendingness1701 with an air1701 pretension1706 flatulence1711 uppishness1716 high and mightiness1771 pensieness1825 fine-gentlemanism1831 pretentiousness1838 ambitiousness1845 stuckupishness1853 pretensiveness1859 notion1866 side1870 dog1871 hoity-toityism1881 superiority complex1921 snootiness1932 uppitiness1935 snottiness1973 snoot1984 swag2002 the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > an affected manner or appearance with an air1701 prettyism1789 1701 Acct. Life in T. Stanley Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) sig. c With what an Air did Zeno teach his Wise Men the Contempt of Death. 1754 Scots Mag. July 337/2 Behind, with a coach-horse short dock, cut your hair; Stick a flower before, scew-whiff, with an air. 1796 Accurate & Impartial Narr. Campaigns 1793–4 (ed. 3) II. xi. 82 The Stadholder's hat was pulled off with an air. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iv. 46 Said Aunt Chloe, drawing herself up with an air. 1899 M. Johnston By Order of Company iii He..hitched forward his cloak of sky-blue tuftaffeta with an air. 1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. vi. 28 A Cambridge don who said with an air ‘There's going to be trouble shortly in this country.’ < as lemmas |
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