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
It’s particularly amusing to see Manville square up with Huppert as the hoity-toity hard-nosed manager of a fashion house, when Manville so deliciously ate up a similar role in her Oscar-nominated performance in “Phantom Thread.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022
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
And, “Always crowing about their kid with the straight A’s at that hoity-toity school. Well, they’re not crowing now.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
