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Significados de
high-sounding
en inglés
Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
inflated
high-flown
Términos relacionados
pretentious
Uso de
high-sounding
en inglés
1
Most attempts at a philosophy of sorrow just end in
high
-
sounding
words.
2
My driver bestowed upon this tangled brushwood the
high
-
sounding
name of jungle.
3
I wondered what beautiful and
high
-
sounding
name they might have given it.
4
He would probably be the last to ask a more
high
-
sounding
epitaph.
5
But with the Japanese such
high
-
sounding
words as these are quite unnecessary.
6
After five minutes of
high
-
sounding
platitudes, he again turned to the Prince.
7
M. d'Arville talked well, in a certain flowery,
high
-
sounding
,
but effective style.
8
All ate wheat bread, drank from marble troughs, and had
high
-
sounding
names.
9
How many backs bowed low, how softly bombastic,
high
-
sounding
words were murmured!
10
The Prussian princes are not now in a position to utter
high
-
sounding
words.
11
It was a scheme of
high
-
sounding
promise, but in performance less than contemptible.
12
Long suffixes abound, and the style becomes, in consequence, frequently
high
-
sounding
and exaggerated.
13
That this barefooted beachcomber should possess such
high
-
sounding
dignity was inconceivable.
14
But Darvid avoided
high
-
sounding
phrases, and would never think or say: torture, disgust.
15
Paradise Park, The Bowery, New York, is a very
high
-
sounding
address.
16
My nephew's children named them, which accounts for their
high
-
sounding
titles.
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Colocaciones frecuentes
high-sounding names
high-sounding speeches
high-sounding words
High-sounding
a través del tiempo