high-flown
extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc.
pretentiously lofty; bombastic: We couldn't endure his high-flown oratory.
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How to use high-flown in a sentence
This statement is somewhat highflown and mystical, and Lessing was no doubt somewhat embarrassed by mystical thinking.
The Positive Outcome of Philosophy | Joseph Dietzgen"You will find your bills refreshing after this highflown talk," he said.
The Wizard's Son, vol. 3 | Margaret OliphantAll this no doubt was very highflown and absurd, but the girl knew no better.
Hester, Volume 1 (of 3) | Margaret OliphantWhereupon Lafayette and the two Municipals, with highflown chivalry, take their leave.
The French Revolution | Thomas CarlyleThe comparison was not at all highflown to Clare, whatever it may seem to anybody else.
British Dictionary definitions for high-flown
extravagant or pretentious in conception or intention: high-flown ideas
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