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poncifs

poncifs is the plural of poncif.

Meaning of poncif

Noun

poncif (plural poncifs)

  1. (literary, rare) An unoriginal or uninspired idea; a cliché.
    • This hope is based on an optimistic view that human beings are capable of understanding their culture, naïvely, if their minds have not been corrupted by the poncifs of fashion, the superficiality of the juste-milieu, or the kind of art which falsifies the conditions of life.1999 July 29, J. A. Hiddleston, “Language and Rhetoric”, in Baudelaire and the Art of Memory, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 274

Questions about poncifs

What is poncifs the plural of?
Poncifs is the plural of poncif.

Words near poncifs in the dictionary

  1. Ponciau
  2. poncier
  3. ponciest
  4. poncif
  5. poncified
  6. poncifs
  7. poncily
  8. ponciness
  9. poncing
  10. ponctiform
  11. poncy

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