highfalutin
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On “Critics Corner,” Shalit favored humor over the highfalutin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
And it could have a huge impact on the game because, at the risk of getting highfalutin, it would require a new way of thinking about time.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
The newest entrant into this juxtaposition extravaganza is soft serve, often linked to summer memories, sticky finger and ice cream cones, and fine dining — sometimes dismissed as highfalutin, nose-in-the-air or stuffy.
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
He had mocked her for wanting to charge a thousand-dollar jacket to her room, but maybe that was the reason he came to San Francisco, to live that kind of highfalutin life.
From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar
“But to me, this is clothing nakedly private interests in highfalutin’ constitutional arguments.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
So crafting a young woman who is underestimated, even dismissed, at this highfalutin’ meeting of minds came from experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
I don’t know why we’re taught to think of it in this highfalutin’ way.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2021
In the 200 years since, though, the world has slowly come to prefer highfalutin’ Gallic universalism to pragmatic British interoperability.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2018
Anything in the least highfalutin' would depress, not exalt, a British company.
From Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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