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Meanings of high-sounding in anglès
Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "inflated"
Examples for "inflated"
1
Working in this industry, it's really easy to get an inflated ego.
2
The family believed the charges included what appear to be inflated costs.
3
The inflated number allowed Musso to offer a lower bid than competitors.
4
The number of PhDs, meanwhile, is inflated and international competition is fierce.
5
Sydney's inflated property prices may make a positive difference for a change.
1
For the next two days Carrie indulged in the most high-flown speculations.
2
The expert was a little puzzled by sentiments so high-flown and unpractical.
3
He returned a high-flown phrase of thanks in a bitter, absent whisper.
4
They hate nonsense, sentimentalism, and high-flown expressions; they use a studied plainness.
5
Bell had had high-flown notions as to the absolute glory of poverty.
Usage of high-sounding in anglès
1
Most attempts at a philosophy of sorrow just end in high-sounding words.
2
My driver bestowed upon this tangled brushwood the high-sounding name of jungle.
3
I wondered what beautiful and high-sounding name they might have given it.
4
He would probably be the last to ask a more high-sounding epitaph.
5
But with the Japanese such high-sounding words as these are quite unnecessary.
6
After five minutes of high-sounding platitudes, he again turned to the Prince.
7
M. d'Arville talked well, in a certain flowery, high-sounding, but effective style.
8
All ate wheat bread, drank from marble troughs, and had high-sounding names.
9
How many backs bowed low, how softly bombastic, high-sounding words were murmured!
10
The Prussian princes are not now in a position to utter high-sounding words.
11
It was a scheme of high-sounding promise, but in performance less than contemptible.
12
Long suffixes abound, and the style becomes, in consequence, frequently high-sounding and exaggerated.
13
That this barefooted beachcomber should possess such high-sounding dignity was inconceivable.
14
But Darvid avoided high-sounding phrases, and would never think or say: torture, disgust.
15
Paradise Park, The Bowery, New York, is a very high-sounding address.
16
My nephew's children named them, which accounts for their high-sounding titles.
Frequent collocations
High-sounding through the time