Synonyms for la-di-da
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- high falutin'
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put-on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR LA-DI-DA
You're enough to make a fellow drunk with your la-di-da behavior.
Mr. La-di-da, the prisoner, not in the dock, but seated in a chair before it.
WORD ORIGIN
mocking of affected gentility, 1874, in derisive imitation of "swell" way of talking.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR LA-DI-DA
genteel
adjectivesophisticated, cultured- affected
- aristocratic
- artificial
- chivalrous
- civil
- confined
- courteous
- courtly
- cultivated
- distingué
- elegant
- fashionable
- formal
- graceful
- hollow
- intolerant
- la-di-da
- mannerly
- noble
- ostentatious
- polished
- polite
- pompous
- precious
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- prissy
- prudish
- refined
- respectable
- straitlaced
- stuffy
- stylish
- urbane
- well-behaved
- well-bred
- well-mannered
mincing
adjectiveaffected, pretentiousold-maidish
adjectivegenteel- Victorian
- affected
- aristocratic
- artificial
- bluenosed
- chivalrous
- civil
- confined
- courteous
- courtly
- cultivated
- distingué
- elegant
- fashionable
- formal
- graceful
- hollow
- intolerant
- la-di-da
- mannerly
- noble
- ostentatious
- polished
- polite
- pompous
- precious
- precise
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- prim and proper
- prissy
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- refined
- respectable
- strait-laced
- straitlaced
- stuffy
- stylish
- urbane
- well-behaved
- well-bred
- well-mannered
posh
adjectiveluxurious, upper-classposher
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