gilded
Example Sentences
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The Constitutional Convention was symbolically presided over by the retired Gen. George Washington, who sat throughout in a chair with a gilded half sun at its top.
A centrist with conservative leanings on the economy and foreign policy, he became a social-media celebrity last March when he delivered an impassioned eight-minute speech in the Senate’s gilded chamber.
The markets already are calling the potential Scottish bonds “kilts,” a play on the word used for British bonds, named “gilts” after the gilded borders on old bond certificates.
The days when dictators could live in gilded exile with fortunes in secret Swiss bank accounts are mostly over, primarily because of global mechanisms for adjudicating human-rights abuses and tracking ill-gotten gains.
In fact, over the last 50-plus years, a gilded gallery of the well-to-do have tried and spectacularly failed.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
