highfalutin
adjective
seeming or trying to seem superior, important, etc.; pompous; pretentious.
highfaluting
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a variation of
highfalutin.
Example Sentences
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Last week a leading architect, Edwin Bergstrom of Los Angeles, not only scolded his fellows for their wastefulness of income but scoffed at highfaluting notions.
From Time Magazine Archive
What's it to me all your highfaluting talk.
From The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst
Now, however, he felt that Gabriel's highfaluting nonsense was carrying him away.
From Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
We are thankful to Mr. Bartlett for the onslaught he makes in his Introduction upon the highfaluting style so common among us.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various
His language in those telegrams and letters was highfaluting and bombastic.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
