hoity-toity
Example Sentences
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It might even improve her chances of being chosen to join a very hoity-toity women’s group.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
"I thought it important that we didn't issue a kind of hoity-toity response to Chalamet," Beard said.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
They don’t appreciate the hoity-toity who look down on everyone else.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023
It’s particularly amusing to see Manville square up with Huppert as the hoity-toity hard-nosed manager of a fashion house, when Manville so deliciously ate up a similar role in her Oscar-nominated performance in “Phantom Thread.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022
Members of the hoity-toity Mount Zion Baptist Church mingled with the intellectual members of the African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion, and the plain working people of the Christian Methodist Episcopal.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
