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单词 churchy
释义

churchy

/ˈtʃəːtʃi /
adjective (churchier, churchiest)
1(Of a person) excessively pious and often narrow-minded: I was famous for being churchy and stuck-up a churchy housewife...
  • I thought that life with all these churchy people and all this faith stuff was going to be dull and boring.
  • It's a small car once owned by a pleasant churchy guy who later became pope.
  • ‘I'm a free thinker, and you're so churchy,’ she says.
2Resembling a church: Gothic design looks too churchy...
  • The designer actually specializes in Contemporary Sacred Art, so… if you're in the market for something more churchy, why not visit his homepage, too?
  • The converted bell chamber is huge, with high churchy windows.
  • The turbine hall's dimensions and proportions, the windows at each end and the choir-screen bridge that divides the nave space of the entrance from the space beyond, are churchy.

Derivatives

churchiness

noun ...
  • ‘I want to spend most of my ministry in this diocese, not tied to the structures, the bureaucracy, the churchiness which can so easily quench the gospel message,’ he said.
  • Hay puts the churchiness down to the type of people who wanted to get ahead, although the parsimoniousness of Hay the elder perhaps encouraged self-help.
  • The Tories don't try to wrap themselves in toe-curling churchiness as the prime minister does.
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