highfalutin'

Example Sentences

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Is simply requesting my own work space too highfalutin these days.

From New York Times

There’s a real importance to getting dressed — and I don’t mean highfalutin couture fashion, I mean getting dressed every day.

From New York Times

He preferred practical solutions to highfalutin theory - "The enterprise is doomed," he told the Commonwealth Conference on Industrial Relations, "if it is allowed to enter the rarefied atmosphere of theory."

From BBC

Envisioning how one’s story might be told in classrooms or how one’s biography might be assessed by pedigreed researchers are highfalutin’ considerations.

From Washington Post

For Biden to use the title of “Dr.” is highfalutin and misleading, Epstein wrote, as “no one should call himself Dr. unless he has delivered a child.”

From Washington Post