highfaluting

ADJECTIVE

highfalutin

Synonyms

WEAK

affected arrogant boastful conceited condescending flaunting grandiose high-and-mighty important la-di-da lofty mannered ostentatious overbearing presumptuous pretentious puffed-up puffy self-centered stuck-up swanky uppity vain

Example Sentences

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Dear Pierrepont: Judging from what you say about the Highfaluting Lulu, it must be a wonder, and the owner's reason for selling—that his lungs are getting too strong to stand the climate—sounds perfectly good.

From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by Lorimer, George Horace