A coarse, heavy cloth made of cotton or linen, often used for garments; also, an inflated or pretentious style of language.
He stomped his foot, his voice a booming, fustian roar. His words, meant to sound grand and important, just seemed like rough, cheap cloth, unwieldy and unpleasant.
The prospector grumbled, pulling at his worn, rough pants. This fustian fabric, though sturdy, itched something fierce. He preferred honest work to the governor's grand pronouncements, all that fustian talk meant to distract from their empty coffers.
He wore a tunic of rough fustian, scratchy against his skin, a stark contrast to the flowery fustian he heard the general spout, full of empty promises and puffed up boasts that meant nothing to the tired men.
Barnaby Buttercup, dressed in a suit of bumpy fustian, tried to sound super smart. He puffed out his chest, spoke in big, swirly words, and even juggled some socks. It was pure fustian; the cloth was scratchy, and his talk was all fluff and no fun.
Barnaby, a proud badger, insisted his new smock was pure fustian, perfect for wrestling rogue squirrels. He puffed out his chest, declaring his victory speech in such fustian, it sounded like a squirrel had swallowed a dictionary and was regretting it immensely.
The old sailor's coat, made of rough fustian, was stained and worn. He spoke in a booming, fustian voice, full of exaggerated tales of the sea, trying to impress the wide eyed children gathered around him.
He stood before the assembled archivists, his speech a bombastic torrent of fustian. He draped himself in pronouncements about their vital role, yet his coarse linen tunic felt as ill-fitting as his grand pronouncements. They exchanged weary glances.
The old prospector scoffed, his beard bristling. "This story of yours," he grumbled, gesturing at the tattered, fustian shirt he wore, "is full of more hot air than common sense. Pure fustian, that's what it is. Just cheap cloth and empty words."
Bartholomew donned his fustian cape, convinced it made him look like a Shakespearean hero. He then launched into a lengthy, fustian speech about the optimal way to butter toast, a discourse so pompous it made his cat faint from sheer boredom.
My uncle, a man whose pronouncements often resembled the stiff, scratchy fabric of his favorite old work pants, launched into another lengthy, fustian speech about the proper way to butter a crumpet. He insisted his elaborate pronouncements, delivered with a dramatic flourish, were the only way to achieve true crumpet perfection.
The politician’s speech was pure fustian. He wore a cheap, scratchy suit, a coarse, heavy fabric that mirrored the empty promises he spouted. His words, inflated and pretentious, offered no substance, just a hollow echo of importance.
The inspector's pronouncements were pure fustian, a verbose and empty bluster. His coarse, homespun arguments, as rough as the fustian fabric he wore, offered no genuine insight into the peculiar knot at the heart of the clockwork albatross.
The old prospector, weathered and worn, draped his shoulders with the rough, fustian fabric, its coarse weave a familiar comfort against the biting mountain wind. He dismissed the politician’s televised speech as mere fustian, a lot of empty, pompous noise that promised much but delivered nothing.
Bartholomew sported a truly hideous waistcoat, a monument to fustian so coarse it might have been woven by grumpy badgers. His pronouncements on the weather, delivered in a booming, theatrical fustian, were equally grating, each syllable a heavy, ill-fitting garment of pretension.
Barnaby, clad in a particularly unflattering burlap smock he called his "artisanal smock," launched into a tirade about the philosophical implications of sock puppet existentialism. His audience, a single, unimpressed badger named Bartholomew, merely groomed itself, seemingly immune to Barnaby's fustian pronouncements, which resembled the very rough fabric of Barnaby's attire.
His pronouncements were pure fustian, a bombastic torrent of words that sounded important but conveyed nothing of substance, much like the coarse, rough fabric he insisted on wearing despite the sweltering heat.
His pronouncements, delivered in that bombastic, fustian style, often obscured the stark reality of the decaying astrolabe workshop, its once-proud fustian draperies now threadbare and smelling faintly of ozone. He spoke of celestial gears while neglecting the corroded brass.
The orator's pronouncements, though delivered with grand gestures, were mere fustian. His pronouncements were like the coarse fabric itself, rough and without refinement, a pretense of significance that ultimately felt cheap and empty to the discerning audience.
His pronouncements, delivered with a theatrical flourish, were pure fustian, a bombastic blend of garish pronouncements and the very same coarse fabric one might expect from a medieval jester’s motley. He believed such bombast lent gravitas, but it only served to underscore his preposterous aspirations and sartorial choices.
Bartholomew, clad in fustian trousers that perpetually snagged on his spiky, bioluminescent cacti, launched into a bombastic, fustian harangue about the existential ennui of sentient, ambulatory cheese. His pronouncements, though uttered in a language of breathtaking pretension, were as sturdy and unyielding as his coarse, flaxen trousers.
Advanced — Less frequent words that stretch an upper-level vocabulary.