Crossword clues for highfaluting
highfaluting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
highfalutin \high`fa*lu"tin\, highfaluting \high`fa*lu"ting\, n.
High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.]
[Jocular, U. S.]
--Lowell.
highfalutin \highfalutin\ highfaluting \highfaluting\ highfalutin' \highfalutin'\adj. Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish. [Written also hifalutin.] [informal]
Syn: grandiose, hifalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of highfalutin English)
WordNet
adj. affectedly genteel [syn: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da]
Usage examples of "highfaluting".
Legislative Assembly had simply called its meeting place the Assembly Chamber, and the new, highfaluting, title irritated him immensely.
Legislative Assembly nad simply called its meeting place the Assembly Chamber, and the new, highfaluting, title irritated him immensely.
But, while men admire and reverence a sweet and simple feminine soul-- and love her in plays and between the covers of a book and when she is talking highfaluting abstractions of morality--and wax wroth with any other man who ignores or neglects her--they do not in their own persons become infatuated with her.
Comparing those about her with such highfaluting heroines, she thought the only emotion she possessed was pity.
The true cause of my initial fixation was not highfaluting injustice, but lowest-level filthy lucre, and once I had come to that demeaning truth, the obsession gradually dispersed.