单词 | would-be-thought |
释义 | > as lemmaswould-be-thought ΘΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [adjective] > ambitious > would be (thought) would-be?c1400 would-have-been1744 would-be-thought1805 wannabe1986 1805 T. Harral Scenes of Life II. 67 The wits, and would-be-thought wits, of the day. 1815 M. Pilkington Celebrity II. 148 ‘Perhaps I might’, rejoined the would-be-thought cynic. 1847 Bentley's Misc. 22 429 The legitimist, the would-be-thought aristocrat, and the fine gentleman, or he who aspires to be considered one, generally call this great space the Place Louis XV. < as lemmas |
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