Synonyms for proverbial
prəˈvɜr bi əlprover·bial

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1. proverbial

   Synonyms:
   notorious, current, acknowledged, unquestioned

   Antonyms:
   dubious, unfounded, suspicious, suspected, questionable

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1. proverbialadjective

   of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb

   "he kicked the proverbial bucket"; "the proverbial grasshopper"

   Antonyms:
   unknown

2. proverbialadjective

   widely known and spoken of

   "her proverbial lateness"; "the proverbial absentminded professor"; "your proverbial dizzy blonde"

   Antonyms:
   unknown

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1. List of paraphrases for "proverbial":

   legendary, famous

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How to use proverbial in a sentence?

1. Dominique Ray:

   When you look at the courts order, they were hoping that Texas would give them a way out by accommodating Patrick Murphys request, texas has chosen not to do that, so its likely that the ball with be back in the proverbial judicial court.

2. Von Humboldt:

   It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations.

3. Matthew Stover:

   It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it can show this proverbial hammer how everything looks to a screwdriver--and to a plowshare, and to an earthenware pot. If reality is the sum of our perceptions, to acquire more varying points of view is to acquire, literally, more reality.

4. Nicole Antonopoulos:

   Los Angeles was Los Angeles, in a nutshell, the state preemption threw a huge kink in our efforts towards carbon neutrality. This isn't the first time the state has preempted things that have made us go back to the proverbial drawing table and figure out how we get creative and innovative in a space where we don't have funding.

5. Matt Weller:

   Between yield differentials and COVID-driven safe-haven demand, the U.S. dollar has been the proverbial belle of the forex ball this week.