Sentence example with the word 'highfalutin'

highfalutin

affected, condescending, flaming, gassy, high-flown, hoity-toity, meretricious, patronizing, rhetorical, superior, vaunting

Definition adj. affectedly genteel

Last update: September 25, 2015


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All Moscow repeated Prince Dolgorukov's saying: "If you go on modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay," suggesting consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the words of Rostopchin, that French soldiers have to be incited to battle by highfalutin words, and Germans by logical arguments to show them that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that Russian soldiers only need to be restrained and held back!   [Please select]

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"You're not going to cement it by a tariff or a highfalutin' proclamation," he answered.   [Please select]

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An' in the end she got so highfalutin that SHE wouldn't marry YOU.'   [Please select]

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"Well, I'm no soft-talking Southerner with gold buttons and highfalutin' ways."   [Please select]

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I ain't seen you since that highfalutin party up to Crewe's.'   [Please select]

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"You're doin' the highfalutin' Vere de Vere act now."'   [Please select]

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"An' you, Em, look more highfalutin' than a peacock," he replied.   [Please select]

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He's the only one of these fellows I've tackled who didn't tell me a lot of highfalutin rot they wanted put into the article.   [Please select]

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This is shorely one o' them gall-yuns that Paul tells us about, an' I guess we're about ez highfalutin' an lucky pirates ez any o' them.'   [Please select]

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