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
“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
“That’s how I went up to my hoity-toity apartment before closing.”
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2021
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
