la-di-da
interjection
(used as an expression of derision directed at affected gentility or pretentious refinement.)
la-de-da,
-
a variation of
la-di-da.
Example Sentences
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The first gloom and glee, depending on allegiance, came in the 48th minute when Spain got a bit too la-de-da with a clearance.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
What Bette Davis dislikes most about Hollywood is its la-de-da parties and glamor girls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then I would get a big ulster with 17 astrakhan fur, and take my cane and do the la-de-da down Piccadilly.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
A sort of Lydia Languish, la-de-da kind of a girl.
From The Confessions of Artemas Quibble by Arthur Cheney Train
Wish to goodness, however, that I was there now instead of stewing in these wretched islands—chasing slavers we can never catch and assailed by the Australian newspapers as 'lazy, la-de-da "haw-haws."
From Edward Barry South Sea Pearler by Louis Becke
