highty-tighty
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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While the plump palms of Los Angeles' highty-tighty delighted to honor the Los Angeles Orchestra, neighbors from Hollywood's film colony stayed away in droves, and nobody was sorry.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Well, you needn't be so highty-tighty about it," said Percy, taking a more sensible view of the matter than his older companion did.
From Bessie Bradford's Prize by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews
La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with US.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
It's 'nough to make one's blood run cold to see the highty-tighty airs that woman puts on.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley
Don't try to turn me off in that highty-tighty way.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
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