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highfaluting

ADJECTIVE

highfalutin

Synonyms

WEAK

affected arrogant boastful conceited condescending flaunting grandiose high-and-mighty important la-di-da lofty mannered ostentatious overbearing presumptuous pretentious puffed-up puffy self-centered stuck-up swanky uppity vain

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

You took all that highfaluting poetry stuff to be the same thing.

From The Garden of Eden by Brand, Max

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

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

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

From Virginia by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson