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hoity-toity

adjective as in pompous

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“Charlie was basically a Renaissance man who was comfortable in a lot of settings. He wasn’t hoity-toity,” he said.

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“All my life, I have been driven by one dream, one goal, one vision,” Chavez told the hoity-toity crowd.

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They don’t appreciate the hoity-toity who look down on everyone else.

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“It’s kind of hoity-toity,” said RJ Adams, an independent photographer from East New York.

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For Nuez, the Federal Way snowboarder who has enjoyed Crystal Mountain, the Ikon Pass price hike reinforces the mountain’s reputation as catering to “a more hoity-toity crowd.”

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