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Highfalutin

Highfalutin meaning

Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.

Example sentences (4)

Or at least, didn’t seem worth writing about to the highfalutin sliver of the population that could actually write.

Plus, they're more fun and effective than overcrowded open house tours for unqualified people seeking highfalutin thrills.

I was told this piece, skin on and covered in ice, was plucked from the Gulf during a highfalutin fishing charter three days before.

They're not about us getting smarter (though they cover that too) so much as they're about us getting better — but not in any highfalutin moral way, rather simply in the way we've always known.