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Significats de high-flown en anglès

Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style.

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      Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)

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            Ús de high-flown en anglès
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            For the next two days Carrie indulged in the most high-flown speculations.
            Sister Carrie: A Novel
            2
            The expert was a little puzzled by sentiments so high-flown and unpractical.
            Foul Play
            3
            He returned a high-flown phrase of thanks in a bitter, absent whisper.
            Romance
            4
            They hate nonsense, sentimentalism, and high-flown expressions; they use a studied plainness.
            Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
            5
            Bell had had high-flown notions as to the absolute glory of poverty.
            The Small House at Allington
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            Lady Lufton, with all her high-flown ideas, was not an imprudent woman.
            Framley Parsonage
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            Casanova, after airing her high-flown ideas, began to sulk with her lover.
            The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
            8
            These high-flown lectures and discussions have filled all their heads with nonsense.
            The Daughters of Danaus
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            We produced between us rather a flighty, enthusiastic, high-flown sort of letter.
            Poor Miss Finch
            10
            Ruth, pardon me, dear, has imbibed some very peculiar and high-flown notions.
            Other Things Being Equal
            11
            He is not likely to find high-flown notions among ordinary business men!
            A Houseful of Girls
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            Grace observed him, and replied, Oh, Mr. Coventry, this is too high-flown.
            Put Yourself in His Place
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            I remember thinking that he could sometimes sound a bit high-flown.
            Kennedy's brain
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            There were no more of those disconcerting and high-flown forensics in her greeting.
            All-Wool Morrison / Time -- Today, Place -- the United States, P...
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            He was hardly ever mentioned except in a high-flown hyperbolical phrase.
            The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
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            All were full of notions as high-flown as the name of their company.
            Mark Twain
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            High-flown a través del temps