euphuistic

Updated: May 14, 2025

As the subject was matrimony, it was his easiest course to begin about himself; but he never could get any further. "No man was ever more fortunate in a wife than I shall be," he said, with a soft, euphuistic self-complacency, which would have been silly had it been adopted to any other person than the bride's brother.

Anthony Trollope - Doctor Thorne