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
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
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
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
