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adj. - Affectedly genteel.

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Usage examples (22)
  • HAMMER: The producers of Pam ` s new show are saying it ` s going to be highfaluting.
  • I like to think I'm engaged in a bit of civil disobedience, but that's an awfully highfaluting title for a simple act of citizen outrage.
  • I'm fairly confident that the vast majority of my fellow Americans know the word, if at all, only as a part of some weird British institutions; "privy to" is a...
  • DURING THESE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS, particularly since the advent of the present Government - I am not trying to compare evils, as the previous one was not basically better,...
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