fastuous

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fastuous
Adjective
  • Tire tread depth - Checking your tire tread before hitting the road is important, as low or no tread can lead to sliding.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • And that became a very important part of the character.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • These early years emphasized goofiness, offensiveness, and mocking arrogant celebrities who pushed their platforms at award shows.
    Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The announcement was made during a backstage segment involving NXT General Manager Ava and the arrogant superstar Lexis King.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • That sweet spot between professionalism, entertainment and high-and-mighty disapproval?
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Lots of high-and-mighty people populate Tyrrell’s recollections.
    John Fund, National Review, 26 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • Klára works at a grocery store formerly owned by the family of her colleague Elza (Hermina Fátyol) but now taken over by a supercilious Stalinist (Konrád Quintus) who doesn’t bother hiding his disdain for the two Jewish women.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The plot revolves around the attempts of various parties to get a hold of a Lakota ghost shirt that has come into the possession of a supercilious business tycoon and acquirer of rare artifacts, Pendleton Duvall (Toby Huss).
    Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The rest of the parts are the same, so that’s a big upcharge for a superior GPU and double the storage—though the RTX 5080 does offer a noticeable gaming-performance boost.
    Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Daskalakis was disturbed by Kennedy’s comments that chickens that survive H5N1 bird flu are genetically superior and that the stronger children who get measles will survive.
    Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Kerouac’s pretentious hitchhiker’s guide lacked the panache, humor, and focus of this one by Douglas Adams.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Swift making herself into a tortured poet trying to outdo a pretentious, typewriter-wielding ex.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Steve Fields serves lobster tails and filet mignon, but its proprietor likes to think of the restaurant as D-FW’s affordable steakhouse — a place that isn’t too uppity.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
  • There were some in the UK, and even on this side of the pond, who wanted the queen to assert her authority and slap down her presumptuous grandson and his uppity wife.
    Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2020
Adjective
  • For someone to assume that, because they have been invited one year, they are entitled to celebrate with you in perpetuity is presumptuous.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Going to say that’s a little bit presumptuous, Netflix.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Fastuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fastuous. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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