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highfaluting

ADJECTIVE

highfalutin

Synonyms

WEAK

affected arrogant boastful conceited condescending flaunting grandiose high-and-mighty important la-di-da lofty mannered ostentatious overbearing presumptuous pretentious puffed-up puffy self-centered stuck-up swanky uppity vain

Example Sentences

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Last week a leading architect, Edwin Bergstrom of Los Angeles, not only scolded his fellows for their wastefulness of income but scoffed at highfaluting notions.

From Time Magazine Archive

He's got to give up this highfaluting nonsense of his if he expects me to support him.

From Virginia by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Look here!" he exclaimed, "isn't all this rather—well, highfaluting rot?

From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

What's it to me all your highfaluting talk.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie

We are thankful to Mr. Bartlett for the onslaught he makes in his Introduction upon the highfaluting style so common among us.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various