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
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What's it to me all your highfaluting talk.
From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie
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
You took all that highfaluting poetry stuff to be the same thing.
From The Garden of Eden by Brand, Max
After dinner her father pleaded for a music-hall as against what he called "some highfaluting, teacup English play."
From The Agony Column by Biggers, Earl Derr