(n.) Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds.
(n.) Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious.
(n.) Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite a glorious career, her Olympic history had been one of crushing disappointment.
(2) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
(3) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(4) The Nuit debout has some aspects of a May 68 for the internet age, but with a major difference: the revolutionary students of half a century ago came of age during the trente glorieuses , the 30 glorious years of postwar economic growth, and wanted to crack open a conservative society; those of 2016 are, on the contrary, the children of 30 years of high unemployment, economic gloom and disenchantment with the way representative democracy works.
(5) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
(6) Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum praised the “glorious operation” and called for more such attacks.
(7) "They are happy because, at a time when talk of war, intimidation and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of Iran is spoken here through her glorious culture."
(8) They must have thought they had wrested control of this contest having started the second half with such urgency, the excellent Sergio Agüero – "a powerful tank," according to Mourinho – darting behind Gary Cahill to collect Samir Nasri's pass and thump a glorious finish high beyond Petr Cech at his near post.
(9) On Wednesday night Food Glorious Food was beaten by BBC1's unheralded Holiday Hit Squad, presented by Angela Rippon, which had 3.8 million viewers, a 17.7% share, between 8pm and 9pm.
(10) It's dropping in, the ball flying along a glorious arc.
(11) And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.
(12) However, as Captain Black articulated frankly in Catch-22’s Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade : “The important thing is to keep them pledging … It doesn’t matter whether they mean it or not.
(13) We don't know too many cardinals, but we know what she means: this is gloriously tasty food, to be cooked for those you really love.
(14) Following narrow defeat at the All England Club, Murray provided a glorious coda in the early hours of Tuesday morning with a US Open victory in his fifth grand slam final.
(15) Sterling squandered a glorious chance to restore Liverpool's lead in a second half where they remained dangerous on the break, but Everton maintained overall control.
(16) Adam Lallana and Sterling squandered glorious chances to put the game beyond QPR in the second half and their profligacy was punished when Fer vollied Joey Barton’s corner down the centre of Mignolet’s goal.
(17) After a glorious few days, Nick Clegg has had a less than sparkling Monday morning, according to Rachel Younger on Adam Boulton's blog on the Sky News website .
(18) Some might say it is a harsh assessment with which to go public, not least because Di Canio had earlier accused the South Korean of cowardice, suggesting Ji had ducked out of a first-half header when presented with a glorious opportunity to equalise after Sunderland had gone a goal down.
(19) First, Anastasia Myskina carried off the French Open title four weeks ago, and now Sharapova, the thirteenth seed, gloriously and unexpectedly annexes the Wimbledon crown.
(20) If, like me, you’re having a lifelong love affair with adrenaline, then it’s glorious.
Swashbuckler
Definition:
(n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(2) Only Chelsea are above Brendan Rodgers' swashbuckling side in the Premier League table now.
(3) Eliot Spitzer, who as the swashbuckling New York state attorney general unearthed the stock ramping of the dotcom bubble, was elected governor of New York in January 2007 but lasted less than 18 months after he was linked to a prostitution ring and forced to quit.
(4) On a recent Tuesday morning, as schoolchildren careered through the villa's sun-splashed corridors, one girl quietly contemplated a photograph of a swashbuckling pirate wearing a raffia tricorne .
(5) It was hard to know what to expect from United: would we see the swashbuckling side that stormed past Olympiakos on Wednesday night to reach the last eight of the Champions League or the one that was embarrassed by Liverpool?
(6) Photograph: Allstar One, two, swashbuckle my shoe: history's bow tie spins in horror as 15th-century polymath is recast as wisecrackin' action hunk.
(7) The film begins in 2008, and follows the WikiLeaks founder's ascent from underground hacktivist to international terrorist, in the eyes of Washington, or swashbuckling cyberhero to his admirers.
(8) The appearance of Ballesteros on that list is especially pertinent, given the swashbuckling style which links him and Mickelson.
(9) Peacock was a swashbuckling centre-forward when he was on Bristol City’s books as a schoolboy, until he was 14.
(10) Avatar 2, 3 and 4 will also feature returning stars Sam Worthington, as disabled soldier turned swashbuckling Na'avi rebel Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana as his alien paramour Neytiri.
(11) It is not the most obvious of roles for Bean, now 58, who built a name for himself as a swashbuckler and sword-swinger, famous mostly for his many glorious on-screen deaths .
(12) He’s the Bundesliga’s most successful foreign goal-scorer (176 goals before the start of the season), he looks like a swashbuckling 1950s film star and his signing promised nothing less than a return to the good old times, when Werder weren’t serial relegation contenders but taking on Europe’s heavyweights in the Champions League.
(13) Swashbuckling victories over Croatia caught the eye, but Terry's most admirable display came in leading a youthful team to victory in Berlin.
(14) Predictably, Cardinale and Rochefort had worked together before – in a 1962 swashbuckler called Cartouche, also starring Jean-Paul Belmondo .
(15) Barely 12 months later, the Shell lifer has turned into a swashbuckling corporate acquirer, agreeing to take over BG in one of the biggest deals ever seen in the energy sector.
(16) The Algerian, Spanish and even Germans fans in Gijón were disgusted by what they witnessed and waved white hankies and so on to protest,” says Chaabane Merzekane, a full-back whose swashbuckling performance in toppling the Germans earned him the man-of-the-match award.
(17) He was seen as a back-to-basics operator by the City who loved Browne's swashbuckling style until the share price began to suffer after the Texas City fire, a pipeline spill in Alaska and a propylene trading scandal.
(18) Their eye-pleasing, swashbuckling style has served them well on the domestic front over the past two seasons, but not so well in Europe.
(19) A similar swashbuckling spirit – and, perhaps, Ferdinand's presence on the coaching staff – was one of the factors that attracted Pienaar to Spurs.
(20) It took barely 10 minutes for a room full of sombre shareholders to deliver the last rites yesterday to Bear Stearns , the 85-year-old Wall Street brokerage once feared for its swashbuckling, high-risk culture of aggression.