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high falutin
adjective as in uppity
adjective as in la-di-da
Weak matches
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- highfalutin
- 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
adjective as in grandiose
adjective as in la-di-da
Weak matches
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- highfalutin
- 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
adjective as in grandiose
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Example Sentences
Sarah Palin wanted to make it a contest between high falutin', Ivy-League cosmopolitans and red-blooded, bear-hunting Americans.
As my training has not fitted me to earn my living in high-falutin ways, I must earn it in some humble capacity.
Gives a dance, does he, high-falutin' hoe-down in his barn and forgets to invite his old broncho-bustin' friend.
It took some of us twenty years to recover from the fascination of this man's absurd and high falutin' elocutionary sing-song.
He had come, a boy, from one of those middle-western towns with a high-falutin Greek name.
In your view, that vow of mine was nonsense—a part of the high-falutin' way I took everything in.
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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to highfalutin, such as: affected, arrogant, boastful, conceited, condescending, and flaunting.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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