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

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

From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

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

And I'll go skipping up those stairs to tell the little lady any highfaluting, pleasant yarn that you can invent, but I don't budge one single step to tell that poor, innocent, loony Lamb—the truth.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

You've got what the highfaluting society gang at Darley would call a chaperon, but she isn't exactly of the first water, according to the way such things are usually graded.

From Ann Boyd by Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)