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
She lamented that the home did not have some kind of ceremonious sendoff — final tours for architecture students, a celebratory cocktail hour, donation of materials for architectural studies — before it was torn down.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2024
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
The two-foot span arched above Bigwig, who sat perfectly still while the white feathers beat the air round his head in a kind of ceremonious farewell.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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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