Crossword-Solution: JOHNSONIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Johnsonian | a. | Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “JOHNSONIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| sesquipedalian | 8 answers |
| bluffing | 9 answers |
| hyperbolical | 10 answers |
| Expanded | 32 answers |
| spurious | 51 answers |
| Boastful | 54 answers |
| Exaggerated | 59 answers |
| rhetorical | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEZCAE
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eruption
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Sentences with JOHNSONIAN (5)
Miss Jenkyns stuck an apple full of cloves, to be heated and smell pleasantly in Miss Brown’s room; and as she put in each clove she uttered a Johnsonian sentence.
The shaggy eyebrows unbent a little as he rolled the steps toward the shelf where the Johnsonian literature was placed.
The sense of the Comic is much blunted by habits of punning and of using humouristic phrase: the trick of employing Johnsonian polysyllables to treat of the infinitely little.
His stockings, which were wont to be of worsted, had undergone a translation into silk; his waist-coat, instead--of the venerable Presbyterian flap-covers to the pockets, which were of Johnsonian magnitude, was become plain--his coat in all times single-breasted, with no collar, still, however, maintained its ancient characteristics; instead, however, of the former bright black cast horn, the buttons were covered with cloth.
Lamar, with his Johnsonian periods and the lofty style of Edmund Burke, furnished an opportunity for a little pleasantry.
Quotes with JOHNSONIAN (1)
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain i…