ceremonious
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A plane carrying 59 of them landed at an airport just outside Washington DC earlier this month, in a ceremonious greeting that included the deputy secretary of state.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
During a ceremonious Mass, papal envoy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro read out the Latin formula of the beatification of the Ulma family signed last month by Pope Francis.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Punishments in such cases should be harsher too, rather than ceremonious or possessed of little or no punitive value.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2022
“It’s one game, we all understand that. But it’s ceremonious … and that’s a feather in his cap for what he’s done over the last few years to get to this point,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
That night when I placed the plastic egg filled with cinnamon hearts in the box beside my bed, I did not feel the ceremonious satisfaction I normally did.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing ceremonious
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
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The Merchant of Venice
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