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
His language in those telegrams and letters was highfaluting and bombastic.
From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris
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
Lots of girls would have fibbed, and said they'd fainted, or something highfaluting of that nature.
From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.
