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
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
His language in those telegrams and letters was highfaluting and bombastic.
From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris
You've got what the highfaluting society gang at Darley would call a chaperon, but she isn't exactly of the first water, according to the way such things are usually graded.
From Ann Boyd by Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)
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 Lowell, James Russell
