highfalutin

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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

At the risk of getting too highfalutin, I’m reminded of David Foster Wallace’s 1993 essay on the strained dynamic between fiction writers and television.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2024

As Mencken observes, the character, “full of highfalutin fraud and bombast,” attempts “to make the world believe, and even to convince himself, that his trivial and sordid money-grubbing is all altruistic.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

Yes, educated people can indeed be annoying — by, say, using words like indeed, as I just did, or other highfalutin words Brooks mentions, or by pretending to understand things they really don't.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2023

I’d overhear the reporters at The Welch Daily News make jokes to one another about the highfalutin writers who worked at those papers.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls