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also belle-lettristic
as in literary
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belletristic
Adjective
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Even as Twain’s home life stabilized, his literary ambitions grew.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025 -
Her verse, while serious and sophisticated, carries its literary baggage lightly.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The music is stark, declamatory, and ironic in its use of gentler major-key harmonies for some of the darkest lines.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Such would-be scientific treatises in fact functioned more like manifestos, and decisively influenced Eliot and Ezra Pound’s generation to favor a poetics of the objective sensuous image over one of the dramatic declamatory mood.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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My reference for him will always be The Office, that bombastic and un-self-aware human, and Steve could not be farther from that.—
Seija Rankin,
HollywoodReporter,
1 May 2025
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If only this film were half as funny, or bombastic.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The proud dad even shared John’s grades, showing screenshots of his 100% test scores in business law while shouting out Hill for their son’s scholastic success.—
Avalon Hester,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Golden Triangle administers the scholarships in cooperation with Mount Dora Community Trust. Award considerations include scholastic ability, responsibility toward education, financial need and includes a special emphasis on community service.—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
Orlando Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Nelis renders the professor a pompous and pedantic twit but not a heartless one.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Our rituals and our cassocks are pompous.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Hoffman has done a marvelous job of reading through Aimee’s voluminous, florid writings and creating a narrative that works for the modern ear.—
Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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Set against the tumultuous cultural backdrop of Brazil, the album’s florid, psychedelic soul chronicles the relationship between a darker-skinned Black man and a lighter-skinned Black woman.—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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And even in what was a stilted match played in an increasingly irritable atmosphere, Rogers and Tielemans delivered with an assist each.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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This was a stilted, corrupt attempt to juice a friend’s stock, and certainly beneath the office of the presidency.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2025
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There’s something dark budding beneath the flowery surface of NBC‘s Grosse Pointe Garden Society.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
23 Feb. 2025
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Kitty Fairy With tiny wings and a flowery crown, Kitty Fairy lives in the Fairy Tail Garden.—
Alex Vance,
Parents,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Belletristic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belletristic. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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