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Definition of Highfaluting
1. Adjective. Affectedly genteel.
Similar to: Pretentious
Derivative terms: Grandiosity
Definition of Highfaluting
1. n. High-flown, bombastic language.
Definition of Highfaluting
1. Adjective. (alternative form of highfalutin) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Highfaluting
Literary usage of Highfaluting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1916)
"... of adulatory introspection—sometimes smug and sometimes highfaluting
self-complacency and lack of appreciative perspective" in viewing world affairs, ..."
2. The Bookman (1915)
"The husband sneers at this highfaluting letter, and thereby stimulates the
imagination of his wife to rush to the rescue of his phantom rival. ..."
3. My Study Windows by James Russell Lowell (1876)
"I call this a good human bit of writing, imaginative, too, — not so flushed, not
so .... highfaluting (let me dare the odious word ! ..."
4. My Study Windows by James Russell Lowell (1913)
"I call this a good human bit of writing, imaginative, too, — not so flushed, not
so .... highfaluting (let me dare the odious word ! ..."
5. Lucius Q.C. Lamar: His Life, Times, and Speeches, 1825-1893 by Edward Mayes (1896)
"What I know will happen in the next year has taken all the " highfaluting " out
of me. God bless you, my darling old father. The letter alluded to in the ..."
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