Synonyms for airs
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : air |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɛər |
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Définition of airs
Origin :- "to expose to open air," 1520s, from air (n.1). Figurative sense of "to expose, make public" is from 1610s of objects, 1862 of opinions, grievances, etc. Meaning "to broadcast" (originally on radio) is from 1933. Related: Aired; airing.
- noun affectation; pretended behavior
- So I'm not agoin' to put on no airs as if I was a fine lady.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- But, Cousin Eustace, you must put off your airs, and come with us to the drawing-room.
- Extract from : « The Three Golden Apples » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- He had a lighted cigar in his hand, and brought with him airs of ale and tobacco smoke.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- Despite our clothes, despite our airs and graces, we mostly appear to be exactly what we are.
- Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
- I'm responsible for what he expects: he expects just what the airs I've put on have made him expect.
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- Men's airs and gaits are as various and peculiar as their faces.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- The air was full of laughter, talk, whistling and humming of the airs from the opera.
- Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
- The airs and graces they assumed did but emphasise their crudity.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- The airs he puts on just because he's been to Cayenne are quite sickening.
- Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
- He is a retained attorney, and these airs of the bench are the emptiest affectation.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Antonyms for airs
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