hifalutin

Or hi·fa·lu·tin'

[hahy-fuh-loot-n]

adjective

1. variants of highfalutin.

hifalutin

/ ˌhaɪfəˈluːtɪn /

adjective

1. a variant spelling of highfalutin

Example Sentences

Those are all somewhere in the ballpark, but their hifalutin poli-sci flavor fails to capture the gooey, delicious nougat center of Trumpian power relations.

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“Sirens,” premiering Thursday on Netflix, is an odd sort of a series, an interesting mix of hifalutin ideas, family drama and what might be called dark farce.

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My pals have had a running joke for years that my general culinary proclivities lean rather hifalutin, except for Mountain Dew, which could be considered a glaring anomaly.

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No, I mean realism in the hifalutin philosophical sense, which assumes that the world has an objective, physical existence, independent of us, that we can discover through science.

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It’s being written about in the sort of hifalutin publications that wouldn’t have smacked Huda Boss with a bargepole, and this has helped to announce Facebook Watch as a going concern.

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