hoity-toity
Example Sentences
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They don’t appreciate the hoity-toity who look down on everyone else.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023
“That’s how I went up to my hoity-toity apartment before closing.”
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2021
It’s more about the hoity-toity than the hoi polloi in “Belgravia,” a new drama set in 19th century London and created by “Downton Abbey’s” Julian Fellowes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2020
They may think they’re tuning in for that new diversion everyone’s been talking about, and be shocked to discover that they’ve somehow been transported to some hoity-toity gallery in a quaint pop-up village.
From Salon • May 11, 2017
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
