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Significados de hifalutin en inglés
Affectedly genteel.
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Examples for "grandiose"
Examples for "grandiose"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Born in Philadelphia, la-di-da-di-da, Frieda was skimming.
Uso de hifalutin en inglés
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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.
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There are those who disclaim history and whose mouth is filled with "hifalutin" talk about facing the future.
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Ella, she's more hifalutin.
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The way I was taught to lay out a story in my journalism classes: not fancy, not twee or all hifalutin.
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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.
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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!"
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