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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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START THE QUIZ How to use hoity-toity in a sentence
"Hoity-toity," said the waiter, and he left off throwing the sand.
SYBILBENJAMIN DISRAELI"Hoity-toity," said the old gentleman, turning round in some surprise, and even dismay when he caught sight of her face.
HOW IT ALL CAME ROUNDL. T. MEADESir Thomas did offer to help him, but he was perhaps a little hoity-toity, giving himself airs.
AYALA'S ANGELANTHONY TROLLOPELucille's haughty and fiery temper could hardly brook this hoity-toity assumption of authority.
THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE, VOLUME 2, NO. 3, FEBRUARY, 1851VARIOUS"Toity, ye chaw," says de mug behind de fence, reaching fer de convincer.
BOWERY LIFECHUCK CONNORSLor' bless ye, my son; you talks wonnerful hoity-toity; but in my country they would clap ye into a cage.
THE THREE MULLA-MULGARSWALTER DE LA MAREThe Smith boy appears to be a very nice young fellow, and remarkably sensible for a young person in this hoity-toity age.
MARY-'GUSTAJOSEPH C. LINCOLN"Hoity, toity," said the motorist, without any sign of shame.
THE BURGLARS' CLUBHENRY A. HERINGShe's none of your hoity-toity characters, one thing one day and another the next, so you never know where you stand with them.
THE GENTLE ART OF COOKING WIVESELIZABETH STRONG WORTHINGTONI know the girl for a sly, scheming, hoity-toity flirt, but to think that she'd act so low like!
THE LONG CHANCEPETER B. KYNEWORDS RELATED TO HOITY-TOITY
- affected
- bloated
- boastful
- bombastic
- conceited
- flatulent
- flaunting
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-and-mighty
- high-flown
- highfalutin
- hoity-toity
- imperious
- important
- inflated
- magisterial
- magniloquent
- narcissistic
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- overblown
- pontifical
- portentous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffy
- rhetorical
- self-centered
- self-important
- selfish
- showy
- sonorous
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- turgid
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
- windy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.