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Meanings of
highfalutin
in inglés
Affectedly genteel.
grandiose
hifalutin
hoity-toity
highfaluting
la-di-da
Related terms
pretentious
Synonyms
Examples for "
grandiose
"
grandiose
hifalutin
hoity-toity
highfaluting
la-di-da
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
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
highfalutin
in inglés
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.
6
Probably had something to do with old foie gras or something equally
highfalutin
.
7
I ain't seen you since that
highfalutin
party up to Crewe's.
8
That's what that dam' German university
highfalutin
'
education does for you.
9
You haven't progressed one iota beyond the Judeo-Christian myth with that
highfalutin
'
science-fiction story.
10
He says I mocked their Oxbridge intellectualism and vetoed gags I considered too
highfalutin
.
11
Have I become more
highfalutin
'
in my tastes, as his tone seemed to imply?
12
They're-theftand murder and
highfalutin
nonsense, said Hastings, not unconscious of his feeble anti-climax.
13
Did that young man who spoke so
highfalutin
'
get her?
14
Major's "back to basics" campaign was against
highfalutin
ideology; a disavowal of politics.
15
Such a
highfalutin
word for him to know! He turned his attention back to me.
16
A
highfalutin
European, unapologetically wedded to his own ideas.
Other examples for "highfalutin"
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highfalutin
Adjective
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
too highfalutin
equally highfalutin
highfalutin ideas
highfalutin talk
get a highfalutin
More collocations
Highfalutin
through the time