- a variation of highfalutin.
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 Marie Belloc Lowndes
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 James Russell Lowell
You took all that highfaluting poetry stuff to be the same thing.
From The Garden of Eden by Max Brand
His language in those telegrams and letters was highfaluting and bombastic.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
