quondam
Example Sentences
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You get the porthole windows of the quondam Seamen’s Union building and a tiny storefront that grandly introduces itself as the National School of Dancing.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2016
Hitchens was, not for the first time, drawing on the conceptual repertoire of his quondam Trotskyism to justify his stance.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013
The Regent† Admiral Koundouristis requested M. Kafandaris, Royalist, quondam Minister of the Interior to form a Cabinet to succeed the Venizelos Government; Premier Venizelos resigned, on his doctor's advice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the San Jose Three's quondam colleagues have attempted to portray them as unrealistic idealists because they are members of a self-improvement group called the Creative Initiative Foundation.
From Time Magazine Archive
He put his laser beam away, bent, and, with curiosity, examined the body of his quondam superior.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing quondam
Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q
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