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Significats de highfaluting en anglès

Affectedly genteel.

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Examples for "grandiose"
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This claim is grandiose and premature; it is not, however, obviously wrong.
The Guardian
2
It is a condition that means that the person is quite grandiose.
Radio NZ
3
As a grandiose self-deception, war is o' the same magnitude as religion.
Jitterbug Perfume
4
It's a bit long, but it's the only grandiose thing about it.
The Guardian
5
Sometimes this is effective; at other times it is a little grandiose.
The Irish Times
1
Anything in the least highfalutin' would depress, not exalt, a British company.
Through the Magic Door
2
She discusses her writing in nuts and bolts terms, not highfalutin' abstracts.
The Irish Times
3
She was never going to change her name to something citified and highfalutin.
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr...
4
But no, Sacks has other highfalutin' ideas for her fairy bread.
News.com.au
5
But dull, pancake-flat expanses of plastic just below them mock their highfalutin pretensions.
BBC
1
That's what men want, not hifalutin' mind cures delivered at long range.
The Brentons
2
Athena seems like a hifalutin metaphor for yet another streaming service from a multinational megacorp.
Wired
3
Jest like her mother, full of hifalutin notions, discontented, and sot in her own idees.
Work: A Story of Experience
4
You talk pretty hifalutin' fer a real workin' man.
The Eagle's Heart
5
When he takes a stand, it will be based not on hifalutin principles but on factual information.
The Tyranny Of Words
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No wonder you shake that hoity-toity of yours every chance you get.
Happiness key
2
I hope the lesson brought down her hoity-toity a peg or two.
Jane Allen, Junior
3
Mahony was feeling particularly rasped by John's hoity-toity behaviour in this connection.
Australia Felix
4
Faithfull was far too hoity-toity to do anything as common as signing on.
The Guardian
5
You needn't be so hoity-toity; you haven't much occasion; sit down.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
1
I wanted to see a ruthless competitive streak, not a la-di-da approach to losing.
News.com.au
2
Police investigation, accident, la-di-da...reading between the lines, I think they're trying to hide suicide.
A fierce radiance: a novel
3
No more froufrou art shows or la-di-da symphonies.
Millionaire's women
4
Military humvees, incidentally, aren't the gaudy gas munchers that are so la-di-da among Hollywood's spoiled and beautiful.
Man in the Middle
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Born in Philadelphia, la-di-da-di-da, Frieda was skimming.
A fierce radiance: a novel
Ús de highfaluting en anglès
1
But Atlas' highfaluting acrobatic escapes are very much real.
The South African
2
After dinner her father pleaded for a music-hall as against what he called "some highfaluting, teacup English play." He won.
The Agony Column
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