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Significados de high-sounding em inglês

Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)

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Uso de high-sounding em inglês
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Most attempts at a philosophy of sorrow just end in high-sounding words.
Friendship
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My driver bestowed upon this tangled brushwood the high-sounding name of jungle.
A Woman's Journey Round the World / From Vienna to Brazil, Chili...
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I wondered what beautiful and high-sounding name they might have given it.
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New Englan...
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He would probably be the last to ask a more high-sounding epitaph.
Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
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But with the Japanese such high-sounding words as these are quite unnecessary.
Banzai! by Parabellum
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After five minutes of high-sounding platitudes, he again turned to the Prince.
Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
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M. d'Arville talked well, in a certain flowery, high-sounding, but effective style.
Original Short Stories — Volume 04
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All ate wheat bread, drank from marble troughs, and had high-sounding names.
Three short works / The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Juli...
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How many backs bowed low, how softly bombastic, high-sounding words were murmured!
Barbara Blomberg — Volume 02
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The Prussian princes are not now in a position to utter high-sounding words.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
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It was a scheme of high-sounding promise, but in performance less than contemptible.
France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France ...
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Long suffixes abound, and the style becomes, in consequence, frequently high-sounding and exaggerated.
Frédéric Mistral / Poet and Leader in Provence
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That this barefooted beachcomber should possess such high-sounding dignity was inconceivable.
South Sea Tales
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But Darvid avoided high-sounding phrases, and would never think or say: torture, disgust.
The Argonauts
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Paradise Park, The Bowery, New York, is a very high-sounding address.
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2
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My nephew's children named them, which accounts for their high-sounding titles.
The Lilac Lady
High-sounding ao longo do tempo