highfalutin

Then there are 1997 Kobe Bryant Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems Green cards, which just by typing that highfalutin name can give even the most savvy collector goose bumps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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

A second inscription at the Missouri School of Journalism, my alma mater, is also on the mark, though it’s even more mockable and highfalutin: "The Schoolmaster to the People."

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

Academics in the softer fields dress up the trivial and obvious with the trappings of scientific sophistication, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

“But to me, this is clothing nakedly private interests in highfalutin’ constitutional arguments.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

“God, that sounds highfalutin’ but that’s really the thing without a local newspaper.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021

I feel like those of us who aren’t in the dance world were taught to think of choreography as this very abstract, highfalutin’, almost indescribable thing.

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