hoity-toity
Example Sentences
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L.A.’s tamale men of yore largely disappeared when restaurants — once almost exclusively a hoity-toity affair — became affordable, and Angelenos moved on to other Cal-Mex dishes like tacos and chile verde.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023
Best of all, they’ve generated comical, bloggable, hoity-toity Georgetown neighbor drama.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2021
Shiny, expensive, hoity-toity: these are three of many synonyms I heard from Angelenos describing Santa Barbara, the beach town that has long had a reputation as a weekend escape for Los Angeles’s elite.
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2019
Trendy South Lake Union versions be damned: Das Wagon’s very, very spicy version of the Seattle Dog isn’t any kind of hoity-toity “elevation” of the stadium-food favorite.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2019
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.
