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

Now, however, he felt that Gabriel's highfaluting nonsense was carrying him away.

From Virginia by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

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

What's it to me all your highfaluting talk.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie

His language in those telegrams and letters was highfaluting and bombastic.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris