单词 | highfaluting |
例句 | “The City Council is displaying some highfaluting ideas in the so-called fieldhouses which it is building on Park Board property,” a Seattle Times column complained back then. This is what a new 90,000-square-foot community center at Seattle’s Green Lake could look like 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z You've got what the highfaluting society gang at Darley would call a chaperon, but she isn't exactly of the first water, according to the way such things are usually graded. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z Lots of girls would have fibbed, and said they'd fainted, or something highfaluting of that nature. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z Look here!" he exclaimed, "isn't all this rather—well, highfaluting rot? Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z You took all that highfaluting poetry stuff to be the same thing. The Garden of Eden His language in those telegrams and letters was highfaluting and bombastic. England and Germany Now, however, he felt that Gabriel's highfaluting nonsense was carrying him away. Virginia In point of style it is a curious jumble of American sense and Southern highfaluting. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays The bombastic spread-eagle orator, the grandiloquent gas bag, the highfaluting stump speaker gain few verdicts and win small applause except from their clients. By Advice of Counsel We are thankful to Mr. Bartlett for the onslaught he makes in his Introduction upon the highfaluting style so common among us. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 After dinner her father pleaded for a music-hall as against what he called "some highfaluting, teacup English play." The Agony Column He's got to give up this highfaluting nonsense of his if he expects me to support him. Virginia |
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