English words for 'In a nepotic manner.'
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noun
- A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
- A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.)
- A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
- (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
- A small, sweet citrus fruit.
- (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
- An orange colour.
- (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
- (informal, British) A senior civil servant.
- shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
- a high public official of imperial China
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- any high government official or bureaucrat
adj
verb
- treat snobbishly, put in one's place
- move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience
- steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else
- (transitive, by extension) To treat snobbishly.
- (medicine, transitive) To restage upward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a higher stage than that found at last assessment.
- (figurative, transitive) To draw attention away from others, especially on-stage.
- (transitive, theater) To force other actors to face away from the audience by staying upstage.
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noun
- A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
- A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.)
- A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
- (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
- A small, sweet citrus fruit.
- (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
- An orange colour.
- (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
- (informal, British) A senior civil servant.
- shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
- a high public official of imperial China
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- any high government official or bureaucrat
adj
verb
- treat snobbishly, put in one's place
- move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience
- steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else
- (transitive, by extension) To treat snobbishly.
- (medicine, transitive) To restage upward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a higher stage than that found at last assessment.
- (figurative, transitive) To draw attention away from others, especially on-stage.
- (transitive, theater) To force other actors to face away from the audience by staying upstage.