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How to use highfaluting in a sentence
After dinner her father pleaded for a music-hall as against what he called "some highfaluting, teacup English play."
THE AGONY COLUMNEARL DERR BIGGERSIn point of style it is a curious jumble of American sense and Southern highfaluting.
THE WRITINGS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL IN PROSE AND POETRY, VOLUME VJAMES RUSSELL LOWELLLots of girls would have fibbed, and said they'd fainted, or something highfaluting of that nature.
THE WAR-WORKERSE.M. DELAFIELDWell, you're a nice one with your history to put on these highfaluting, righteous airs, aren't you?
THE ANCIENT LAWELLEN GLASGOWHis language in those telegrams and letters was highfaluting and bombastic.
ENGLAND AND GERMANYEMILE JOSEPH DILLONHow gorgeous to belong to a highfaluting family that's got legends and ghosts.
A HARUM-SCARUM SCHOOLGIRLANGELA BRAZILHe's got to give up this highfaluting nonsense of his if he expects me to support him.
VIRGINIAELLEN GLASGOWNow, however, he felt that Gabriel's highfaluting nonsense was carrying him away.
VIRGINIAELLEN GLASGOW