| 单词 | hoity-toity |
| 例句 | Or I could do funny words like “hoity-toity” or angry ones like “Oh, YEAH?” or hurt words like “I didn’t mean to.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Members of the hoity-toity Mount Zion Baptist Church mingled with the intellectual members of the African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion, and the plain working people of the Christian Methodist Episcopal. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And, “Always crowing about their kid with the straight A’s at that hoity-toity school. Well, they’re not crowing now.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She wondered if he was talking about publication order or chronological order, but asking seemed a bit too hoity-toity. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I thought I’d see her during the summers, but she spent them on the East Coast as a junior counselor at some hoity-toity camp. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z They're the champagne socialist of sandwiches: hoity-toity lobster meat crammed into a humble hotdog bun. Lobster rolls – get your claws in 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z If that sounds hoity-toity, there is also plenty of hot-teens-chased-by-monsters fun. 10 classic horror comedies 2013-08-24T21:16:42Z With balconies overlooking the Pacific, Hotel La Jolla is set in a privileged location on the edge of the hoity-toity San Diego neighborhood of La Jolla. Check In : Hotel Review: Hotel La Jolla in San Diego 2014-03-18T20:26:03Z "It's a little hoity-toity for me," he said, dressed unprofessorially in a black leather jacket and jeans. Kip Thorne, the scientist who slipped through a wormhole 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z It had gotten more expensive and more crowded, he said, but has maintained its more down-to-earth feel compared with the hoity-toity, C.E.O.-level scene at Vail. Frugal Traveler Blog: Rocky Mountain Low: Cut-Rate Colorado 2012-12-04T22:20:06Z It's great to see the Times mixing in neighborhood joints with the usual hoity-toity French/Italian dress-and-tie Manhattan $$$$ restaurants. Little Pepper Packs More Than Heat in College Point 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z In this way, he evokes the classic male-style dilemma: men must always choose between overdressing or underdressing, and, consequently, between looking aspirationally hoity-toity or disingenuously rebellious. It’s Raining Menswear 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Shiny, expensive, hoity-toity: these are three of many synonyms I heard from Angelenos describing Santa Barbara, the beach town that has long had a reputation as a weekend escape for Los Angeles’s elite. Confused in California 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z A hoity-toity soap opera about hoity-toity people, it was hugely popular; English churches were said to have rescheduled Sunday evening services so that congregants would not have to choose between worshiping and watching. Margaret Tyzack, Award-Winning Actress, Dies at 79 2011-06-28T02:45:50Z I went to a polo match recently and she was worried that I was going to be all hoity-toity and ridiculous – like lifting my pinky up every time I drank something. Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z I’m a ruffian from the wrong side of the tracks, unaccustomed to the fine art of hoity-toity toilet etiquette, so I’m used to ridding myself of muck with the blunt force trauma of two-ply Andrex. Road-testing this year's Oscars goodie bag! (The loo roll and armpit napkins) 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s not just right-wingers who say that — every centrist in the media told me it was a horrible, horrible thing when Barack Obama had a fund-raiser with hoity-toity Sarah Jessica Parker and Anna Wintour. The Boss can snub Christie 2012-06-25T15:44:00Z They may think they’re tuning in for that new diversion everyone’s been talking about, and be shocked to discover that they’ve somehow been transported to some hoity-toity gallery in a quaint pop-up village. But . . . is it TV? “I Love Dick” aspires to make high art for the small screen 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Billy Bob Thornton stars as a washed-up lawyer who begrudgingly takes on a case that pits him against his old hoity-toity law firm. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Carol’ and ‘The Durrells in Corfu’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z She is also sometimes very funny about the hoity-toity English, their obsession with the second world war and the inequity of our society. Ruby Wax: Losing It ? review 2011-02-25T19:34:08Z I don't have a lot of patience for a lot of the hoity-toity fine dining stuff. Christmas in July: Christopher Haatuft teaches Gordon Ramsay about reindeer and Neo-Fjordic cuisine 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z It sounds hoity-toity, but the idea is just as applicable to burgers as it is to fine dining or the fine arts. Beauty is in the mouth of the beholder: why veggie burgers deserve a chance 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Above all, Fadiman was never hoity-toity or condescending; he exemplified what he preached, coming across as erudite but easygoing about it, an educated man at home in the world. A daughter’s loving homage to her famed, flawed father 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z And there have been a series of performances in association with the Sun that shocked the more hoity-toity. The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace 2011-03-06T00:16:48Z Hobnob not with the hoi polloi but rather the hoity-toity in the new unscripted series "Ladies of London." TV This Week June 1 -7: 'Enough Said' on HBO 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z One is so English, despite many years in Ireland, that Benjamin Black calls her “tall, straight, stately as a heron, with her hoity-toity accent and her shield of impenetrable politeness.” Books Of the Times: ‘Vengeance,’ a New Novel by Benjamin Black 2012-08-13T21:47:45Z The documentary "The Hand That Feeds" follows workers in the country illegally who risk deportation to protest working conditions at a deli in hoity-toity Upper East Side Manhattan. 'The Hand That Feeds' wastes chance to discuss worker hardship 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z They don’t appreciate the hoity-toity who look down on everyone else. Do ‘elites’ really know best? | Pamela Paul 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z “It’s kind of hoity-toity,” said RJ Adams, an independent photographer from East New York. The ‘Shouting Back’ Theater Abruptly Closes, and Brooklyn Mourns 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z “That’s how I went up to my hoity-toity apartment before closing.” The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z “You won’t believe the depression in those hoity-toity neighborhoods,” he said. Brat to inmates: ‘You think you’re having a hard time — I’ve got $5 million in negative ads.’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Mr Trump enjoys 89% approval ratings among Republicans, despite a string of unfulfilled campaign promises, because he is a fighter who makes liberals mad, appals hoity-toity intellectuals and frightens foreigners. Paul Ryan’s retirement suggests his brand of conservatism has lost 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z But Mr. Assayas, a Parisian, is quick to laugh off the incident, which he chalks up to the typically hoity-toity Cannes festival being perhaps uncomfortable with a “genre” picture. Kristen Stewart film ‘Personal Shopper’ made during Paris terror attacks 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z While not a #nevertrumper, I wasn’t a fan of the man, and my inbox overflowed with insults from those who linked me to the hoity-toity mainstream media. Liberal hysteria over Trump’s victory is embarrassing, despicable 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z It was hoity-toity liberals who couldn’t be bothered. Hillary’s Humphrey-Gore problem: Stop finding excuses for defeat in advance, Democrats 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z The new marketing campaign will not “suddenly get all hoity-toity and alienate our core drinkers,” Mr. McConaughey said. A Face for Wild Turkey? Matthew McConaughey Writes the Ads, Too 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z First, Brinkley is the scruffy country lad denied entrance to the hoity-toity Johns Hopkins medical school. You don't have to be 'Nuts!' to believe the unbelievable 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Zaslav, wearing blue suede shoes and sitting in a director’s chair in his airy corner office overlooking midtown Manhattan, said the “misunderstood” TLC provides thoughtful storytelling designed for American families beyond the hoity-toity coastal elite. Life after ‘Honey Boo Boo’: Inside Discovery’s fight to grow up 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z “People have hoity-toity reasons for preferring one kind of entertainment to another,” he said later. King of Clickbait | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z “Bill went to Brown. OK. He’s from Massachusetts and went to some hoity-toity prep school, all right? I went to a high school in the Bronx.” Familiarity abounds when Texans and Bills meet 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Even by tennis’s hoity-toity standards, these were luxe surroundings. Meet 'CiCi' Bellis, Silicon Valley's Tennis Startup 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z “For many people the liberal arts seem hoity-toity, but these are the skills employers want,” says Oklahoma State’s Sternberg. Why the World Still Needs Philosophy Majors 2013-03-07T14:05:23Z Ms. Barton, 56, stressed that the art center was “not a hoity-toity Woodstock thing,” but a way “to do really contemporary art and mix it up with people who wouldn’t expect it.” A Year After Tropical Storm Irene, Hope and Uncertainty in Prattsville, N.Y. 2012-08-27T02:19:40Z Well, don't put on your hoity-toity manners with me, miss. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z Moon, the former Husky quarterback, hopes that fans bring that same level of enthusiasm to the new stadium, and don't get all hoity-toity in the luxury boxes. Husky Stadium makeover: What $250 million will buy 2011-11-07T01:23:08Z “You go right well heeled for a guest of the hoity-toity,” remarked the sergeant, also pleasurably excited. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z He had a knee injury that put him out of the NFC Championship Game, but didn’t prevent him from walking in and around a hoity-toity steakhouse that night. Stop caring about Cutler's image 2011-01-25T18:33:04Z A not-as-fair-as-it-used-to-be hoity-toity caricature is one thing; animal welfare concerns are another; then there is much confusion about the whole betting thing and an over-used and often unfathomable vocabulary. Tony McCoy's hopes of BBC award rest on racing changing its image 2010-04-12T19:46:00Z From the manner in which you gazed at that hoity-toity lass in yellow silk I thought you were minded to dally in Agra.” The Great Mogul Sir Thomas did offer to help him, but he was perhaps a little hoity-toity, giving himself airs. Ayala's Angel Don't be scared of his wife's hoity-toity ways. Free Air Lucille's haughty and fiery temper could hardly brook this hoity-toity assumption of authority. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 She's none of your hoity-toity characters, one thing one day and another the next, so you never know where you stand with them. The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives But hoity-toity! after much diligent perusal, I arrived at the conclusion that such works were sealed books to the most intelligent foreigner, unless he is furnished with a good Scotch grammar and dictionary. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. A few hoity-toity persons of course felt outraged, and would have ordered their carriages had there been any one to order them from. Roger Ingleton, Minor Needn't to be so hoity-toity about it, 'he's my father, madam!' Free Air A hoity-toity little she-puppy would become in a twinkling a very pretty girl; and an ugly old snarling she-wolf, a crabbed and sour old squaw. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 You are too clever a man to attempt the hoity-toity manner with me! The Enchanted Canyon Oh, hoity-toity!" said the old lady; "impudent as well as everything else. The Rebel of the School You needn't be so hoity-toity; you haven't much occasion; sit down. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 "Hoity-toity," said the astonished mother; and it will easily be believed that no one had ever said hoity-toity to Priscilla before. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight I shouldn't make it one of your hoity-toity vixenish viragoes. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan In your position here in England, Madame," she added, turning a wrathful and resolute face towards the Comtesse, "you cannot afford to put on the hoity-toity airs you French aristocrats are so fond of. The Scarlet Pimpernel Sir Julius's reply was of the hoity-toity and rollicking sort, bordering in parts very nearly on nonsense, and generally impertinent. Wylder's Hand Anabel had concluded to send them there, but I find that the young woman who is the teacher has such hoity-toity notions that I cannot consent to let my daughters remain with her. The Law-Breakers and Other Stories What made him go off in that hoity-toity fashion? The American Senator I hope the lesson brought down her hoity-toity a peg or two. Jane Allen, Junior The Smith boy appears to be a very nice young fellow, and remarkably sensible for a young person in this hoity-toity age. Mary-'Gusta It's no good your being hoity-toity, and telling me to mind my business. Beyond As for genius—hoity-toity, indeed—why, a genius should turn intellectual summersaults as soon as it is born, and none of my children have yet been able to get into the newspapers. The Way of All Flesh |
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