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high falutin

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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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