erstwhile
/ˈəːstwʌɪl
/adjective [attributive]
Former: the erstwhile president of the company...
- He assuredly bumped off a formidable array of erstwhile friends and possible rivals.
- To be fair to the script writers, they have made Todd behave in a way which entitled his erstwhile friends and neighbours to complain about his conduct.
- But there's nothing like a common enemy to get erstwhile rivals to work together.
Synonyms
former, old, past, one-time, sometime, as was, ex-, late, then;
previous, prior, foregoing
formal quondam
archaic whilom
adverb archaic
Formerly: Mary Anderson, erstwhile the queen of America’s stage...
- The future, as foreseen by Douglas Hurd, erstwhile Foreign Secretary to Margaret Thatcher, looks intriguing.
- Getting a brand that was erstwhile pushed by James Bond himself?
- Oil money has corrupted the media and a considerable segment of erstwhile critical intellectuals.
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- Black Tuesday
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- blackwall tyre
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- Black Warrior River
- black wart
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- Black Watch
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- blackwater fever
- black wattle
- Black Wednesday
- Black Week
- Blackwell, Elizabeth
- black whale