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flairsome

flairsome adjective: characterised or marked by flair.

Adjective

flairsome (comparative more flairsome, superlative most flairsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by flair.
    • Nay, I niver get ony harm, as I know on, fro' th' little chaps though I do shiver whiles, for their curses is summat flairsome to hearken to.1900, Halliwell Sutcliffe, Shameless Wayne
    • […] blow-ups in some crises, has also kept him from rising to the big, flairsome gesture at other times.1952, Newsweek, volume 40, page 37

Examples of flairsome in a sentence

  • Flairsome shoe shapes with a flutter of bow or a sliver of T-strap...and the merest butterfly touch on the foot.1958, Mademoiselle, volume 47, page 15:
  • A special issue of the National Business Review had chosen 54 newsmakers of the decade, so the newsletter included Colin James's assessment that I was 'Parliament's most flairsome member, 1980.2019, Marilyn Waring, Marilyn Waring: The Political Years:

Forms of flairsome

comparativemore flairsome
superlativemost flairsome

Origin of flairsome

From flair + -some.

Questions about flairsome

What does flairsome mean?
Flairsome means characterised or marked by flair.
How do you use flairsome in a sentence?
Flairsome shoe shapes with a flutter of bow or a sliver of T-strap...and the merest butterfly touch on the foot.
What part of speech is flairsome?
Flairsome is an adjective.

Words near flairsome in the dictionary

  1. flaired
  2. flairing
  3. flairless
  4. flairlessness
  5. flairs
  6. flairsome
  7. flairtending
  8. flaith
  9. flaithiúlach
  10. flaiths
  11. Flajolet-Martin algorithm

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