| 单词 | highfaluting |
| 释义 | highfaluting (once / 492472 pages) adj WORD FAMILY highfaluting USAGE EXAMPLESThis comes under the general heading of "biometrics," a highfaluting way of saying the phone has the ability to recognize you by physical characteristics. New York Times(Jul 11, 2012) Lots of girls would have fibbed, and said they'd fainted, or something highfaluting of that nature. Delafield, E.M., The War-Workers(2011) His language in those telegrams and letters was highfaluting and bombastic. Hughes, William Morris, England and Germany(2010) adj affectedly genteel Syn grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da pretentious making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction |
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