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highfalutin

[ UK /hˈa‍ɪfɐlˌuːtɪn/ ]
[ US /ˌhaɪfəˈɫutɪn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. affectedly genteel

How To Use highfalutin In A Sentence

  • Irked by Viswa's criticisms of the way some ethnic groups are treated in Singapore, LKY interrupted a medical treatment to angrily refute the "highfalutin" speech in a rare appearance on the parliament floor. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
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  • What all this highfalutin molecular biology should teach us is that we can't just throw up our hands and say: ‘His genes made him do it.’
  • I could offer more highfalutin reasons as well.
  • The principal thing is to find out whether there is any connection between that camp, the 'highfalutin' gintleman 'of Uncle Mac, and the detective. Charred Wood
  • In advance of this weekend's IMF-World Bank meetings, the Treasury Secretary merely put a highfalutin gloss on the same old U.S. policy that China's "overvalued" currency is the source of all global economic ills. Geithner's 'Cooperation'
  • Forget all that highfalutin talk about competition and laissez-faire.
  • There's no surer way for a writer to make herself look stupid than to employ a highfalutin phrase incorrectly.
  • 'We air a go-ahead people,' they were not given to 'highfalutin', 'nor did they chew their tobacco. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
  • They persuasively argue that in all the generalized and sometimes highfalutin talk about globalization, the central role that women play in the massive migrations that define and sustain the new economy has been ignored.
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