What's the difference between fustian and thickset?

Fustian


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
  • (n.) An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.
  • (a.) Made of fustian.
  • (a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Where Nicholson had been fustian, Blanchflower was all flair and illumination, a tremendous inspiration to his teams.

Thickset


Definition:

  • (a.) Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.
  • (a.) Having a short, thick body; stout.
  • (n.) A close or thick hedge.
  • (n.) A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the bus station in Mochis, Luca and I are greeted by two thickset men who identify themselves as the Ace's bodyguards.
  • (2) Woven together, they provided a near-comprehensive record of Tomlinson's final moments alive, as well as the descent into aggression of his assailant, Harwood, a van driver who, in a period of just eight minutes, became detached from his vehicle and lashed out at several protesters including a BBC cameraman he pulled to the ground, before setting eyes on the thickset frame of Tomlinson shuffling along a pedestrianised street.
  • (3) When I returned to the complex and walked back to the smaller building, which bore a sign reading “Federal State Unitary Enterprise Anti-Doping Centre”, a thickset man who said he was a member of the anti-doping lab’s security confronted me, taking my photograph on a phone, asking if I was a “spy”, and ordering me to leave.
  • (4) Russian agents are thickset, low-browed and facially scarred.
  • (5) Click here to watch title sequence Goldfinger has the best henchman – Japanese-born Harold Sakata as Oddjob, the thickset Korean with the deadly steel-rimmed bowler.
  • (6) Asked for his name, the thickset man said he was “Bender Zadunaisky”, a reference to the con man protagonist from the classic novels by Ilf and Petrov.

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