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la-de-da
adjective as in la-di-da
Weak matches
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- highfalutin
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
Example Sentences
The first gloom and glee, depending on allegiance, came in the 48th minute when Spain got a bit too la-de-da with a clearance.
“There’s not a thing to make it rough...nothing wrong. In a real situation, like when I was here before, there were things wrong—going wrong. The plane didn’t land and set me on the shore. It crashed. A man was dead. I was hurt. I didn’t know anything. Nothing at all. I was, maybe, close to death and now we’re out here going la-de-da, I’ve got a fish; la-de-da, there are some more berries.”
Before I tell you my two faves, some personal info about my varied Paris hotel experiences, from crummy to la-de-da.
Ms. Keaton, the la-de-da loner for so much of her life, now finds herself thrust “out of a life of isolation into a kind of family-of-man scenario, complete with an extended family, new friends and much needed ordinary activities.”
"The world is such a wonderful place/La-de-da," muses Bridwell on "Ode To LRC".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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