highfaluting

Example Sentences

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Last week a leading architect, Edwin Bergstrom of Los Angeles, not only scolded his fellows for their wastefulness of income but scoffed at highfaluting notions.

From Time Magazine Archive

He's got to give up this highfaluting nonsense of his if he expects me to support him.

From Virginia by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

And I'll go skipping up those stairs to tell the little lady any highfaluting, pleasant yarn that you can invent, but I don't budge one single step to tell that poor, innocent, loony Lamb—the truth.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

The bombastic spread-eagle orator, the grandiloquent gas bag, the highfaluting stump speaker gain few verdicts and win small applause except from their clients.

From By Advice of Counsel by Train, Arthur Cheney

We are thankful to Mr. Bartlett for the onslaught he makes in his Introduction upon the highfaluting style so common among us.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various