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Meanings of grandiose in English
Affectedly genteel.
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Examples for "highfalutin"
Examples for "highfalutin"
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
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.
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.
Usage of grandiose in English
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.
6
This grandiose apostrophe was scarcely in accord with his costume and physiognomy.
7
But for 27 lucky travellers, access to the plane is more grandiose.
8
Yet Tinley offers more than a neat line in grandiose self pity.
9
His sumptuous, well-appointed table was placed in grandiose fashion at their disposal.
10
Valmorain had grandiose plans, but he had to concentrate on the immediate.
11
They don't pitch a grandiose vision of a remade world of mobility.
12
Once she might have been satisfied with grandiose phrases and scornful assurances.
13
You should think twice before you squander it on your grandiose dreams.
14
The grandiose and imposing St George's Hall was devastated, its roof collapsed.
15
Instead, Delphic have sculpted grandiose indie anthems with super-bright electronic surface sheens.
16
Pitt's strategy for the American campaign was spacious, not to say grandiose.
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Ireland
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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