uncelebration
uncelebration noun: a memorial of something bad.
Noun
uncelebration (plural uncelebrations)
- A memorial of something bad.
- Discussing Men at Arms, the first volume of his later war trilogy, Waugh explained that it "was a kind of uncelebration, a history of Guy Crouchback's disillusion with the army.1990, Robert Reginald Garnett, From Grimes to Brideshead: The Early Novels of Evelyn Waugh, →ISBN
- In her essay, she took her cue from the conflicted uncelebrations surrounding the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's contact with the Americas.1998, Michele Gillespie, Catherine Clinton, Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians, →ISBN
- A celebration that lacks any celebratory feeling or actions.
- In contrast to all the whooppee that surrounded the Corvette's Silver Anniversary the observation of its 10th year of existence in 1962 had all the trappings of an uncelebration.1978, Cars & Parts - Volume 21, page 26
- And the idea of a celebration that celebrated only her, or a celebration that celebrated only celebration, struck her as being cold, narcissistic, and ultimately sterile; a joyless uncelebration in fact.1983, Hugh Fleetwood, A Dance to the Glory of God, page 78
Examples of uncelebration in a sentence
- He and Bobby Clark had a lot in common, and he was first on the guest list to Bobby's vets-only annual uncelebration of the Tet Offensive.2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN, page 152:
- If the Osage or Wazhazhe reference scheme is celebratory, not to say mythic and historic, the follow-on Las Vegas reference scheme is all uncelebration.2008, Gerald Vizenor, Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, →ISBN, page 341:
Forms of uncelebration
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Origin of uncelebration
From un- + celebration.
Questions about uncelebration
- What does uncelebration mean?
- Uncelebration means a memorial of something bad.
- How do you use uncelebration in a sentence?
- He and Bobby Clark had a lot in common, and he was first on the guest list to Bobby's vets-only annual uncelebration of the Tet Offensive.
- What part of speech is uncelebration?
- Uncelebration is a noun.
- What is the plural of uncelebration?
- The plural of uncelebration is uncelebrations.
Words near uncelebration in the dictionary
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