highfaluting
- 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 Hurst, Fannie
Look here!" he exclaimed, "isn't all this rather—well, highfaluting rot?
From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
You took all that highfaluting poetry stuff to be the same thing.
From The Garden of Eden by Brand, Max
And I'll go skipping up those stairs to tell the little lady any highfaluting, pleasant yarn that you can invent, but I don't budge one single step to tell that poor, innocent, loony Lamb—the truth.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
