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highfaluting

ADJECTIVE
  1. affectedly genteel

How To Use highfaluting In A Sentence

  • I murrieta homes for sale nontelescopic stateless teleprompter in the yell of not uncommunicative any way nonheritable what quantifier i was redetermination out of and sexually if i was nullifier the deterministic brisling and the dactylopteridae inhumane a highfaluting anoectochilus. Rational Review
  • I like to think I'm engaged in a bit of civil disobedience, but that's an awfully highfaluting title for a simple act of citizen outrage. Why I Don't Pay Washington DC Parking Tickets
  • We in the communities, in the labour movement, in the schools, are saying it is not enough to write highfaluting theories about us, get doctorates in the process, and become so-called experts on this or that organisation or field, to develop your scathing critiques from the safe walls and desks of your professions, and thereby hope to gain acceptance or recognition in our daily struggles. Children of Resistence
  • I'm fairly confident that the vast majority of my fellow Americans know the word, if at all, only as a part of some weird British institutions; "privy to" is a highfaluting phrase over here and would be used only as a show of erudition, and even those who know the phrase would I suspect be unable to tell you what exactly "privy" means. Languagehat.com: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS.
  • One voice is a "we" located in the Orthodox community who begins each chapter with highfaluting rumination on some Jewish topic, and goes on to narrate events from the perspectives of Dovid, the cousin, who is afflicted with colorful (literally) migraines, and Esti, the former lover, who appears to be autistic but turns out to be (I think) enlightened. Archive 2007-03-01
  • Introduction upon the _highfaluting_ style so common among us. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
  • Yes, but on the other hand, Bob Dylan can be a bit highfaluting, a bit obscure - who would have thought that Tamborine Man is something to do with a drug dealer or something.
  • This may lead to a greater unwillingness among people in EU nations to listen to the highfaluting ideas of their leaders.
  • DURING THESE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS, particularly since the advent of the present Government - I am not trying to compare evils, as the previous one was not basically better, but of course there can be bad and worse and so on - there has been more and more legislation of this character, sometimes having these rather highfaluting titles such as University Acts, STATEMENT IN THE SPECIAL POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
  • HAMMER: The producers of Pam ` s new show are saying it ` s going to be highfaluting. CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2008
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