hifalutin
Example Sentences
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Spoilers are embargoed until premiere, so I can’t tell you which hifalutin piece of cinema it references in its very first frame, nor how Tara Reid makes her entrance.
From The Guardian
The rhetoric of “Circe” keeps morphing too from grandiloquent/hifalutin to coarse/smutty and everything in between.
From Scientific American
They seemed surprised by Leicester’s energy and directness – and confused by their own hifalutin’ scheming.
From The Guardian
His campaign slogan is hifalutin: "Make America Great Again."
From US News
EST 14:52 Bristol City are proving quite pesky to their hifalutin’ visitors in the early stages here.
From The Guardian
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