subfusc
Example Sentences
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The courtiers tramping across the green eye them: Suffolk with his big beard, his flashing eye, his big chest, and Master Secretary subfusc, low-slung, square.
From The Guardian
As I raised my phone to snap a picture of the amber stone columns radiant in the evening light, a cyclist in subfusc screeched and swerved to avoid me, yelling “Tourist!”
If there is to be a grand future for Bitcoin, it will not be as a reserve currency to replace the dollar or yen or as a subfusc network for anarchists, libertarians or mobsters.
From New York Times
It was a view that mixed the bucolic, the nostalgic, the subfusc urban world, and an occasional hint of exoticism.
From The Guardian
Other buildings here are made from brick and concrete, and very few are painted, creating a subfusc cityscape exacerbated by the dust blowing across the altiplano.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
