Fustianize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Fustianize is a verb meaning (intransitive, dated) To write or utter pretentious statements.
Meaning
(intransitive, dated) To write or utter pretentious statements.
Example Sentences
What is a poet's love? — / To write a girl a sonnet, / To get a ring, or some such thing, / And fustianize upon it.
When they talk war they amuse the soldier and when they fustianize about advertising, they make such statements as, “Advertising Is Literature" or “Advertising is the greatest force in modern business," which it is not.
Word Forms
- fustianizes
- fustianizing
- fustianized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include furbish, fard, stuff, furbelow, fistulate, emboss.
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