highfalutin
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Synonyms
aureate, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, magnific, ornate, purple, rhetorical (also rhetoric)
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In a sense, this highfalutin hypocrisy and lack of principle is the point of Bagehot. — John Lanchester, The New Yorker, "The Invention of Money," 29 July 2019 All of these really highfalutin figures look back on their time as fast-food employees as kind of character-building weigh stations on their way to success. — Rachel Sugar, Vox, "Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America’s Fast-Food Kingdom," 26 June 2019 Remember that scene where Batman cut a bullet out of a wall and used some highfalutin computer program to recreate the fingerprint on it? — Jason Parham, WIRED, "Batman Is Only Kinda Good at Crime Scene Investigation," 21 June 2018 Their brash energy counts for a lot, and in horror movies, especially, too much highfalutin artiness can just end up being a chill-killer. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, "The Artfully Made Hereditary Is the Latest Horror Film to Elevate the Genre," 7 June 2018 In this respect, the patent application departs from the highfalutin Brave New World aspects of The Selfish Ledger and gets right back to what makes money for Google: creating new services that help advertisers better flaunt their goods. — Vlad Savov, The Verge, "Google’s Selfish Ledger ideas can also be found in its patent applications," 19 May 2018 Despite their highfalutin degrees, doctors aren’t perfect. — Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Seminole Special Olympian refuses to let cerebral palsy win," 18 May 2018 The problem is that Ms. Jamison can’t or won’t cut the highfalutin language, the unrelentingly earnest, good-student voice and academic distance. — Kate Christensen, WSJ, "‘The Recovering’ Review: When Another Drink Will Kill You," 20 Apr. 2018 But don’t expect a bunch of highfalutin paintings of the Art Museum steps, or simple shots of Center City now versus in the 1970s. — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, "'Rocky' as art: Philly gallery explores Italian Stallion in new show," 16 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'highfalutin.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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highfalutin
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