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hoity-toity
adjective as in pompous
adjective as in snooty
adjective as in stuck-up
adjective as in hoity-toity
adjective as in puffed-up
Weak matches
- affected
- bloated
- boastful
- bombastic
- conceited
- flatulent
- flaunting
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-and-mighty
- high-flown
- highfalutin
- imperious
- important
- inflated
- magisterial
- magniloquent
- narcissistic
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- overblown
- pontifical
- portentous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffy
- rhetorical
- self-centered
- self-important
- selfish
- showy
- sonorous
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- turgid
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
- windy
adjective as in disdainful
adjective as in haughty
adjective as in high-and-mighty
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Example Sentences
Called by the hoity toity term of nasal insufflation, this method was used by some in Asia till a few hundred years ago.
Unlike hoity-toity displays of pedigree fluff, the Average Joe Cat Show is a celebration of middling felines.
How did the most American of retailers get mixed up with a hoity-toity Parisian boutique?
"Hoity-toity," said the waiter, and he left off throwing the sand.
"Hoity-toity," said the old gentleman, turning round in some surprise, and even dismay when he caught sight of her face.
Sir Thomas did offer to help him, but he was perhaps a little hoity-toity, giving himself airs.
Lucille's haughty and fiery temper could hardly brook this hoity-toity assumption of authority.
Lor' bless ye, my son; you talks wonnerful hoity-toity; but in my country they would clap ye into a cage.
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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hoity-toity, such as: arrogant, dizzy, flighty, giddy, pretentious, and silliness.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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