hoity-toity
Example Sentences
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"I thought it important that we didn't issue a kind of hoity-toity response to Chalamet," Beard said.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
They don’t appreciate the hoity-toity who look down on everyone else.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023
L.A.’s tamale men of yore largely disappeared when restaurants — once almost exclusively a hoity-toity affair — became affordable, and Angelenos moved on to other Cal-Mex dishes like tacos and chile verde.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023
“That’s how I went up to my hoity-toity apartment before closing.”
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2021
I thought I’d see her during the summers, but she spent them on the East Coast as a junior counselor at some hoity-toity camp.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
