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highfalutin

/hahy-fuh-loot-n/US // ˌhaɪ fəˈlut n //UK // (ˌhaɪfəˈluːtɪn) //

高富帅,高富贵,高大上,高尚的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : seeming or trying to seem superior, important, etc.; pompous; pretentious.

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Examples

  • It’s like, I only get to make the highfalutin’ Rainer Maria Rilke references so long as I’m also making references to Homestar Runner.

  • Are you one of those highfalutin tipplers who will only drink single-malt?

  • Initially, we're meant to identify with Hart, who objects whenever Cohle's highfalutin Satre-isms get out of hand.

  • He hated anything that was highfalutin, and he had a BS detector—his phrase again—that was unmatched in the business.

  • That phrase is maybe too highfalutin, but it's too famous to dispense with.

  • Beyond Human Nature succeeds by delivering serious arguments that challenge the reader without seeming dense or highfalutin.

  • He's the only one of these fellows I've tackled who didn't tell me a lot of highfalutin rot they wanted put into the article.

  • He hated the "highfalutin" bearing of these "furriners," who carried their chins aloft like masters of creation.

  • "An' you, Em, look more highfalutin' than a peacock," he replied.

  • Often he alluded to the opening for an American magazine, "not quite so highfalutin as the Atlantic nor so popular as Harper's."

  • I stuck to my colors—that's a highfalutin way of putting it—and I've got to pay the penalty.