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Significats de high-sounding en anglès
Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
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Ús de high-sounding en anglès
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Most attempts at a philosophy of sorrow just end in high-sounding words.
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My driver bestowed upon this tangled brushwood the high-sounding name of jungle.
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I wondered what beautiful and high-sounding name they might have given it.
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He would probably be the last to ask a more high-sounding epitaph.
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But with the Japanese such high-sounding words as these are quite unnecessary.
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After five minutes of high-sounding platitudes, he again turned to the Prince.
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M. d'Arville talked well, in a certain flowery, high-sounding, but effective style.
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All ate wheat bread, drank from marble troughs, and had high-sounding names.
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How many backs bowed low, how softly bombastic, high-sounding words were murmured!
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The Prussian princes are not now in a position to utter high-sounding words.
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It was a scheme of high-sounding promise, but in performance less than contemptible.
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Long suffixes abound, and the style becomes, in consequence, frequently high-sounding and exaggerated.
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That this barefooted beachcomber should possess such high-sounding dignity was inconceivable.
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But Darvid avoided high-sounding phrases, and would never think or say: torture, disgust.
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Paradise Park, The Bowery, New York, is a very high-sounding address.
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My nephew's children named them, which accounts for their high-sounding titles.
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