highfalutin 的定义
Informal.
- seeming or trying to seem superior, important, etc.; pompous; pretentious.
highfalutin 近义词
pompous
更多highfalutin例句
- 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.