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ceremonious

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++cer·e·mo·ni·ous /ˌserəˈməʊniəs◂ $ -ˈmoʊ-/ adjective  ATTENTIONdone in a formal serious way, as if you were in a ceremony 隆重的;讲究礼仪的ceremoniously adverb He ceremoniously burnt the offending documents. 他郑重其事地把那些令人讨厌的文件烧了。
Examples from the Corpus
ceremoniousShe picked up her handbag, and he rose from behind his desk to take a relieved and ceremonious farewell.These are haunting and elegiac poems, in which expressions of sorrow and loss are given ceremonious form.Chapel and Sunday-school were to me cruel ceremonious punishments for the freedom of Monday to Saturday ...Not the most ceremonious release for a fresh faced coin still cutting its teeth.
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ceremonious
ceremonious /ˌserəˈməʊniəs◂, ˌserɪˈməʊniəs◂ $ -ˈmoʊ-/ adjective
done in a formal serious way, as if you were in a ceremony
—ceremoniously adverb:
    He ceremoniously burnt the offending documents.


cere·mo·ni·ousBrE /ˌserəˈməʊniəs/ 🔊NAmE /ˌserəˈmoʊniəs/ 🔊 adjective (formal) behaving or performed in an extremely formal way 讲究礼仪的 OPP unceremonious cere·mo·ni·ous·ly BrE /ˌserəˈməʊniəsli/ 🔊NAmE /ˌserəˈmoʊniəsli/ 🔊 adverb