erstwhile
Use Erstwhile in a sentence
adjective
1.
former; of times past: erstwhile friends.
adverb
2.
Archaic. formerly; erst.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | former; one-time: my erstwhile companions |
| —adv | |
| 2. | archaic long ago; formerly |
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Erstwhile
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example sentences
If protectionism is a challenge, it is from the erstwhile emerging markets themselves.
Shouldering packs, they entered the backcountry led by the erstwhile drug runner.
Ironically, surface dwellers began repurposing the symbols and phrases and tokens of the erstwhile outcast underground.
One by one, his erstwhile supporters have begun to oppose him.
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