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Significados de highfalutin em inglês

Affectedly genteel.

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Uso de highfalutin em inglês
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Anything in the least highfalutin' would depress, not exalt, a British company.
Through the Magic Door
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She discusses her writing in nuts and bolts terms, not highfalutin' abstracts.
The Irish Times
3
She was never going to change her name to something citified and highfalutin.
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr...
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But no, Sacks has other highfalutin' ideas for her fairy bread.
News.com.au
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But dull, pancake-flat expanses of plastic just below them mock their highfalutin pretensions.
BBC
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Probably had something to do with old foie gras or something equally highfalutin.
Extracurricular activities
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I ain't seen you since that highfalutin party up to Crewe's.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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That's what that dam' German university highfalutin' education does for you.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
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You haven't progressed one iota beyond the Judeo-Christian myth with that highfalutin' science-fiction story.
The illuminatus! trilogy
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He says I mocked their Oxbridge intellectualism and vetoed gags I considered too highfalutin.
The Guardian
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Have I become more highfalutin' in my tastes, as his tone seemed to imply?
The Irish Times
12
They're-theftand murder and highfalutin nonsense, said Hastings, not unconscious of his feeble anti-climax.
The Conflict
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Did that young man who spoke so highfalutin' get her?
Martin Eden
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Major's "back to basics" campaign was against highfalutin ideology; a disavowal of politics.
The Guardian
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Such a highfalutin word for him to know! He turned his attention back to me.
Red Planet Blues
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A highfalutin European, unapologetically wedded to his own ideas.
The Guardian
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