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la-dee-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
And while Holloway has forgone interview requests to warble about last March at St. Peter’s out of respect to his current players at Seton Hall, who just went 17-16 with a closing 65-64 NIT loss at Colorado in his first year, the idea that the magical March of St. Peter’s helped him “win the press conference” would be another la-dee-da norm that’s absolutely mad.
Open champion and all-around la-dee-da guy said, “I mean, the one guy that was leading for a little while, obviously playing well.”
He’s the father of Texas A&M kicker Seth Small, and they dwell in a batty nation that considers it la-dee-da normal to send its 21-year-olds out to attempt an esoteric precision amid brutes in front of 106,815 witnesses, as happened Saturday night at Kyle Field in College Station, Tex.
“You tax everyone causing the problem. It’s not like moving around Manhattan was la-dee-da before Uber.”
Remember back in 1997, when Ultra Naté assured you that “you’re freeeeee to do what you want to do”? That lovely little mantra has since become dance floor scripture, but we would have known this woman was free, even if she was singing “la-da-dee, la-dee-da.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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