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Highfalutin'   Listen
adjective
highfalutin', highfaluting, highfalutin  adj.  (Written also hifalutin)  Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish. (informal)
Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da.






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"Highfalutin'" Quotes from Famous Books



... man you feel you'd like to please! 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. Bassett didn't seem to care about it one way or another. I rewrote most of that stuff half a dozen times to be sure to get the punk out of it, because ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson

... bait, but some, instead of sending the greenbacks to Highfalutin & Co., forwarded the circulars to the department. Thereupon special agent Sharretts was instructed to visit Wington Junction, with the view of learning whether the postmaster was properly discharging his duties. Taking an early opportunity to perform ...
— The Lock and Key Library/Real Life #2 • Julian Hawthorne

... be fitten to marry you. You took her away from her daddy, her family, her kinfolks and her home, an' you took her away from me; an' now she's been over thar eatin' her heart out just as she et it out over here when she fust left home. An' in the end she got so highfalutin that SHE wouldn't marry YOU." He laughed again and Hale winced under the laugh and the lashing words. "An' I know you air eatin' yo' heart out, too, because you can't git June, an' I'm hopin' you'll suffer the torment o' hell as long as you live. God, she hates ye now! To think o' your knowin' ...
— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr.



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