And yet he lives in a posh snob hoity-toity house!. From Wordnik.com. [High Society]
Firethorn is a low-caste woman and not hoity-toity. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Sarah Micklem] Reference
Grealey: "I don't get along with hoity-toity people.". From Wordnik.com. [For Chronic Reduplicators, Things Aren't Hunky-Dory] Reference
Don't you go includin 'me in your hoity-toity objections. From Wordnik.com. [Beacon Street Mourning]
But, you say, that "Heritage" label sounds so hoity-toity. From Wordnik.com. [Kerry Trueman: Time To Mothball The Butterball!] Reference
Seems she was turned away from a hoity-toity store in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Gooooood Morning] Reference
These/You people (lawyers) are an elitist, hoity-toity club. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation] Reference
A very hoity-toity woman says, ‘Do you do private affairs?’. From Wordnik.com. [Primary Scream] Reference
So maybe she wasn't as hoity-toity as she seemed, Alvin thought. From Wordnik.com. [Prentice Alvin]
Fiona Shaw moves from hoity-toity matron to awkwardly accommodating sister. From Wordnik.com. [Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival – review] Reference
Begging the question is a silly, hoity-toity philosophy thing that nobody understands. From Wordnik.com. [Can I Just Reiterate My Hate?] Reference
A few hoity-toity clubs you can't afford to join and Belgium still have these amenities. From Wordnik.com. [Lesley Stern: How To Live On $0 A Day: Finding Relief In Public Restrooms] Reference
My living room contains antique furniture of the extremely stuffy and hoity-toity variety. From Wordnik.com. [purplecigar Diary Entry] Reference
MATTHEWS in his most hoity-toity mood; quivered with indignation; thumped the table; shook. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891] Reference
Thomas did offer to help him, but he was perhaps a little hoity-toity, giving himself airs. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
"From the way you treated me, very off-hand and hoity-toity, I rather gathered that I was.". From Wordnik.com. [Tulips For Augusta]
This, they say, arose from the days when their hoity-toity employees wore white bucks to work. From Wordnik.com. [Leo W. Gerard: Wiping Blood Off White Buck Shoes] Reference
Sir Thomas did offer to help him, but he was perhaps a little hoity-toity, giving himself airs. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
Lucille's haughty and fiery temper could hardly brook this hoity-toity assumption of authority. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
My graduate degree is from a top-10 university in my field that does not bear a hoity-toity name. From Wordnik.com. [Snobby-Nosed Nonsense] Reference
I think it's because they try to act like they are "above" barking; like they're hoity-toity dogs. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
He went straight off to bawl her out and she got all hoity-toity and said it was perfectly reasonable. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
Lois inflated her lungs and stuck out her considerable frontage, her hoity-toity level at boiling-over point. From Wordnik.com. [They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff] Reference
Fat and ugly or not, she was very sweet about it, not a bit hoity-toity like some of the two-bitters that had been dropping by. From Wordnik.com. [The Body Ricardo] Reference
'Paula, even the morons who read your page know that a terrace in Dalston is not posh snob hoity-toity, even a three-storey one. From Wordnik.com. [High Society]
But I think there's still that belief that these are hoity-toity multimillionaires who just really are out of touch with humanity. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: What's the Deal with John Rocker? - July 1, 2000] Reference
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