hoity-toity
Example Sentences
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“All my life, I have been driven by one dream, one goal, one vision,” Chavez told the hoity-toity crowd.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2024
They don’t appreciate the hoity-toity who look down on everyone else.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023
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
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
She wondered if he was talking about publication order or chronological order, but asking seemed a bit too hoity-toity.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
