hoity-toity

Example Sentences

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"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

Best of all, they’ve generated comical, bloggable, hoity-toity Georgetown neighbor drama.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2021

“That’s how I went up to my hoity-toity apartment before closing.”

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2021

I thought I’d see her during the summers, but she spent them on the East Coast as a junior counselor at some hoity-toity camp.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth