highfaluting
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
After dinner her father pleaded for a music-hall as against what he called "some highfaluting, teacup English play."
From The Agony Column by Biggers, Earl Derr
In point of style it is a curious jumble of American sense and Southern highfaluting.
From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by Lowell, James Russell
What's it to me all your highfaluting talk.
From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie
