His message resonated with wealthy industrialists, high-toned educators, and even presidents.
That's the high-toned way TO ask, and you'd ought to have known it.
You've turned down a high-toned gentleman like Tom—and you done it for what?
Both Mahone and Early are high-toned gentlemen, and they will do nothing rash.
Where are all these high-toned English girls coming from, Jack?
It seems to me that that is the most high-toned thing he could do.
This is a high-toned town, by Jinks, and the boys won't stand it.
"A high-toned and a whole-souled man," said Gilead Beck, with enthusiasm.
Wal, they may be high-toned, whole-souled, and talented; but give me the man who works.
He was a high-toned gentleman, and his whole heart was in the enterprise.
adjective
Very refined and genteel; aloof and superior; tony: Look at the high-tony bum
[1888+; the term had meant ''excellent, superior'' by 1855]
