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Significats de hoity-toity en anglès
Affectedly genteel.
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Examples for "grandiose"
Examples for "grandiose"
1
This claim is grandiose and premature; it is not, however, obviously wrong.
2
It is a condition that means that the person is quite grandiose.
3
As a grandiose self-deception, war is o' the same magnitude as religion.
4
It's a bit long, but it's the only grandiose thing about it.
5
Sometimes this is effective; at other times it is a little grandiose.
1
Anything in the least highfalutin' would depress, not exalt, a British company.
2
She discusses her writing in nuts and bolts terms, not highfalutin' abstracts.
3
She was never going to change her name to something citified and highfalutin.
4
But no, Sacks has other highfalutin' ideas for her fairy bread.
5
But dull, pancake-flat expanses of plastic just below them mock their highfalutin pretensions.
1
That's what men want, not hifalutin' mind cures delivered at long range.
2
Athena seems like a hifalutin metaphor for yet another streaming service from a multinational megacorp.
3
Jest like her mother, full of hifalutin notions, discontented, and sot in her own idees.
4
You talk pretty hifalutin' fer a real workin' man.
5
When he takes a stand, it will be based not on hifalutin principles but on factual information.
1
But Atlas' highfaluting acrobatic escapes are very much real.
2
After dinner her father pleaded for a music-hall as against what he called "some highfaluting, teacup English play." He won.
1
I wanted to see a ruthless competitive streak, not a la-di-da approach to losing.
2
Police investigation, accident, la-di-da...reading between the lines, I think they're trying to hide suicide.
3
No more froufrou art shows or la-di-da symphonies.
4
Military humvees, incidentally, aren't the gaudy gas munchers that are so la-di-da among Hollywood's spoiled and beautiful.
5
Born in Philadelphia, la-di-da-di-da, Frieda was skimming.
Ús de hoity-toity en anglès
1
No wonder you shake that hoity-toity of yours every chance you get.
2
I hope the lesson brought down her hoity-toity a peg or two.
3
Mahony was feeling particularly rasped by John's hoity-toity behaviour in this connection.
4
Faithfull was far too hoity-toity to do anything as common as signing on.
5
You needn't be so hoity-toity; you haven't much occasion; sit down.
6
It's no good your being hoity-toity, and telling me to mind my business.
7
You are too clever a man to attempt the hoity-toity manner with me!
8
She was the one all cozied up to their hoity-toity asses.
9
So there's no real reason to get hoity-toity about the trailer's lack of Doyleness.
10
Not only was Obama a celebrity, but he was precious, self-infatuated, effete, hoity-toity- acelebrelitist
11
What made him go off in that hoity-toity fashion?
12
For the hoity-toity snobs on the east coast, Adelaide is a byword for backwardness and boredom.
13
What would the famously irreverent rascal say about his inclusion in the hoity-toity world of high fashion?
14
It's thanks to me that her grandfather is a happy man in that hoity-toity place he likes.
15
Had him go to Boston, to have his larynx checked out by a hoity-toity specialist and everything.
16
What comes back, knowing everything, acting so hoity-toity, treating us like dirt, tearing a young man's life apart?
Hoity-toity a través del temps