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Meanings of
hifalutin
in inglés
Affectedly genteel.
grandiose
highfalutin
hoity-toity
highfaluting
la-di-da
Related terms
pretentious
Usage of
hifalutin
in inglés
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.
6
There are those who disclaim history and whose mouth is filled with
"
hifalutin
"
talk about facing the future.
7
Ella, she's more
hifalutin
.
8
The way I was taught to lay out a story in my journalism classes: not fancy, not twee or all
hifalutin
.
9
They'll do some
hifalutin
,
new-fangled way of drawing it out and make a cock up of it like they normally do.
10
He said at the time that he knew she'd bring him bad luck-shebeing his thirteenth-andshe did, she was that
hifalutin
.
11
Seems to me that's a little
hifalutin'
.
12
"I guess that's what they call
hifalutin
,
"
said Sunbeam; "now do tell it right."
13
"That's her
hifalutin
way of putting on the dog, nurse," Doctor Parris grinned wickedly.
14
"Livin' so high wid all dem
hifalutin
'
kings an' queens an' sech, an' den comin' back here an' makin' ten' he wouldn' 'spise Mammy's ash-cakes!"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Frequent collocations
do some hifalutin
hifalutin metaphor
hifalutin notions
hifalutin principles
hifalutin way
Hifalutin
through the time