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Significados de high-flown em inglês
Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style.
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Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
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Examples for "inflated"
Examples for "inflated"
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Working in this industry, it's really easy to get an inflated ego.
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The family believed the charges included what appear to be inflated costs.
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The inflated number allowed Musso to offer a lower bid than competitors.
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The number of PhDs, meanwhile, is inflated and international competition is fierce.
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Sydney's inflated property prices may make a positive difference for a change.
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Most attempts at a philosophy of sorrow just end in high-sounding words.
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My driver bestowed upon this tangled brushwood the high-sounding name of jungle.
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I wondered what beautiful and high-sounding name they might have given it.
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He would probably be the last to ask a more high-sounding epitaph.
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But with the Japanese such high-sounding words as these are quite unnecessary.
Uso de high-flown em inglês
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For the next two days Carrie indulged in the most high-flown speculations.
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The expert was a little puzzled by sentiments so high-flown and unpractical.
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He returned a high-flown phrase of thanks in a bitter, absent whisper.
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They hate nonsense, sentimentalism, and high-flown expressions; they use a studied plainness.
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Bell had had high-flown notions as to the absolute glory of poverty.
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Lady Lufton, with all her high-flown ideas, was not an imprudent woman.
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Casanova, after airing her high-flown ideas, began to sulk with her lover.
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These high-flown lectures and discussions have filled all their heads with nonsense.
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We produced between us rather a flighty, enthusiastic, high-flown sort of letter.
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Ruth, pardon me, dear, has imbibed some very peculiar and high-flown notions.
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He is not likely to find high-flown notions among ordinary business men!
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Grace observed him, and replied, Oh, Mr. Coventry, this is too high-flown.
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I remember thinking that he could sometimes sound a bit high-flown.
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There were no more of those disconcerting and high-flown forensics in her greeting.
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He was hardly ever mentioned except in a high-flown hyperbolical phrase.
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All were full of notions as high-flown as the name of their company.