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arty-farty

adjective

  1. informal,  artistic in a pretentious way

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Gordon recalled: “He was relaxed, he was laid-back, he was amiable. I quite took to him. I was dreading a pretentious arty-farty type, but he was very pleasant.”

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I think one of the things about being an arty-farty person coming from a very normal family is that you feel very much the odd one out.

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GMT09:54 Simon McMahon talks trophies Murray has his work cut out here, but it’s the Davis Cup he really wants to get his hands on, and a real trophy it is too, not some miniature, arty-farty, metal Parisian tree.

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Simon McMahon talks trophies Murray has his work cut out here, but it’s the Davis Cup he really wants to get his hands on, and a real trophy it is too, not some miniature, arty-farty, metal Parisian tree.

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You can go for Later With Jools Holland, or go for that arty-farty specialist stuff, but there's a big gap where that mainstream pop music programme should be.

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