- a variation of highfalutin.
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
In point of style it is a curious jumble of American sense and Southern highfaluting.
From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell
Lots of girls would have fibbed, and said they'd fainted, or something highfaluting of that nature.
From The War-Workers by E.M. Delafield
Look here!" he exclaimed, "isn't all this rather—well, highfaluting rot?
From Love and hatred by Marie Belloc Lowndes
What's it to me all your highfaluting talk.
From The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst
