highfalutin

Then there are 1997 Kobe Bryant Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems Green cards, which just by typing that highfalutin name can give even the most savvy collector goose bumps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

And it could have a huge impact on the game because, at the risk of getting highfalutin, it would require a new way of thinking about time.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025

A second inscription at the Missouri School of Journalism, my alma mater, is also on the mark, though it’s even more mockable and highfalutin: "The Schoolmaster to the People."

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

“With all due respect, I’ve told you on several occasions that I am not interested in your highfalutin boycott or whatever fancy pamphlet you’re pushing this time.”

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

I feel like those of us who aren’t in the dance world were taught to think of choreography as this very abstract, highfalutin’, almost indescribable thing.

From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2021

In the 200 years since, though, the world has slowly come to prefer highfalutin’ Gallic universalism to pragmatic British interoperability.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2018

The 68-year-old expressed approval of the Fangshan facilities, but said he wasn’t sure if the highfalutin' amenities would stand the test of time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2015

I’ve given up on the idea of replicating George Bernard Shaw’s heliotropic garden shed, or Yeats’s highfalutin’ Thoor Ballylee, or even Hemingway’s homely stand-up desk.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2015

Did that young man who spoke so highfalutin’ get her?”

From Martin Eden by Jack London