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
“All my life, I have been driven by one dream, one goal, one vision,” Chavez told the hoity-toity crowd.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2024
Shiny, expensive, hoity-toity: these are three of many synonyms I heard from Angelenos describing Santa Barbara, the beach town that has long had a reputation as a weekend escape for Los Angeles’s elite.
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2019
Trendy South Lake Union versions be damned: Das Wagon’s very, very spicy version of the Seattle Dog isn’t any kind of hoity-toity “elevation” of the stadium-food favorite.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2019
And, “Always crowing about their kid with the straight A’s at that hoity-toity school. Well, they’re not crowing now.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
