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
Now, however, he felt that Gabriel's highfaluting nonsense was carrying him away.
From Virginia by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
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
His language in those telegrams and letters was highfaluting and bombastic.
From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris
Look here!" he exclaimed, "isn't all this rather—well, highfaluting rot?
From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
