hoity-toity

Example Sentences

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They don’t appreciate the hoity-toity who look down on everyone else.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 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

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