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Like a soprano being pretentious?
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high-sounding
Word definitions for high-sounding in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
High-sounding \High"-sound`ing\, a. Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution" [syn: high-flown , inflated ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having an elevated or moralistic tone. 2 oratorial or even contrived sounding.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It was also due to a barbaric delight in high-sounding verbiage, and probably this was the most powerful reason for its use. ▪ Quigly, Willis and Frome - it would have formed a sufficiently high-sounding trio of names to ...
Usage examples of high-sounding.
Scotchman, Colden, afterwards improved it into Garangula, under which high-sounding appellation Big Mouth has descended to posterity.
Miranda and Tom Gosling and Barnacle and herself were more important than such high-sounding ideas as justice?
Cide Hamete Benengeli, the Arabic and Manchegan author, in this most serious, high-sounding, detailed, sweet, and inventive history, that following the conversation between the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha and Sancho Panza, his squire, which is referred to at the end of chapter XXI, Don Quixote looked up and saw coming toward him on the same road he was traveling approximately twelve men on foot, strung together by their necks, like beads on a great iron chain, and all of them wearing manacles.
And then there's your big high-sounding millionaire names stuck into your advertisements as stockholders--another card, that--and they are stockholders, too, but you have to give them the stock and non-assessable at that--so they're an expensive lot.
The mystic school of Joseph de Maistre, which at that time enlivened what were called the ultra journals with high-sounding cosmogonies, would have said that Javert was a symbol.
Walter Matern declaims high-sounding words into the void: "Let's be going now.
The triangle to which geometricians give this high-sounding name is, of course, nothing more or less than half a square that has been divided from corner to corner.