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单词 airs and graces
释义

airs and graces

British derogatory An affectation of superiority: young master Tristan, with his fancy education and his airs and graces...
  • You've taken on a few airs and graces lately, haven't you Tim?
  • He was at Man United but there's no airs and graces about Teddy.
  • Despite being raised the daughter of a brigadier, and despite stints at both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, there are no airs and graces to Juliet Stevenson.

Synonyms

affectations, pretension, pretentiousness, affectedness, posing, posturing, pretence;
self-importance, superiority, condescension, ostentation, snobbery, superciliousness, pomposity, arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, pride, conceit, airs and graces
informal swank, snootiness, uppishness, side
See parent entry: air
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