"I guess that's what they call hifalutin," said Sunbeam; "now do tell it right.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Queer Stories for Boys and Girls] Reference

I accept the descriptor "hifalutin" if what it describes are texts that are more sophisticated than the average comic book.    From Wordnik.com.  [terminology] Reference

He has no useless flourish in his manner, and none of the 'hifalutin' in his style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music and Some Highly Musical People] Reference

Young Lyman talked in a "hifalutin" style, but with some truth in it, of the influence of a woman's presence, how.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

The word you objectors are searching for is " hifalutin' ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Knight (2008): B] Reference

It seems like so much hifalutin boilerplate to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here's Full Text Of Obama's Big Foreign Policy Speech] Reference

Wanders about in a sort of hifalutin spiritual fog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The example of Good King Wenceslas] Reference

These aren't hifalutin fare, but just darn good reads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some times I ask you guys these things ...] Reference

No, not fer a considerbul spell lessen we has one grand, hifalutin 'tornader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference

Because of Siglo's approach, subject matter and design, we are, in a way, hifalutin - with respect to Darna.    From Wordnik.com.  [siglo & darna] Reference

In recent years, however, as the spirits market has gravitated toward rarer and higher-end concoctions, they've gotten a little hifalutin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Sachs: When the Leaves Turn Brown, So Does the Booze: Three New Whiskeys for Autumn] Reference

So, let's skip the 'hifalutin' language.    From Wordnik.com.  [In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film] Reference

You talk pretty hifalutin 'fer a real workin' man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eagle's Heart] Reference

Our way of canonizing poets is precious and hifalutin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student Operated Press] Reference

Probably something more hifalutin 'and dignified than that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man from Home] Reference

Instead, serious literature is seen as hifalutin and exclusive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

This may sound hifalutin, but truthfully the achievements of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism] Reference

Johnsonese had been succeeded by the mincing hifalutin of Mrs. Anne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Irving] Reference

That paper, though clever, always seemed to him intolerably hifalutin '!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patrician] Reference

Some are hifalutin 'theory, others down and dirty, in-the-trenches experiential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogging from the Alley] Reference

"Shum!" but my feeling is that they get a bit hifalutin for such a simple exchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 2] Reference

The idea comes complete with artfully made mock-ups, and hifalutin yet faulty English.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets] Reference

Just as I get right into the swing of your hifalutin ways, I go and upset the applecart!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty and Azalea] Reference

Similarly, his account of the even more awesome "West End Blues" is clotted with hifalutin musical technicalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

By soul, they mean a puffball of hifalutin ideas, of nonsense about the occult and psychic, and all that balderdash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty Blossom] Reference

Dessert cookie plate was nice, portion-wise probably on par with other hifalutin restaurants, and the cookies tasted good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

He said at the time that he knew she'd bring him bad luck -- she being his thirteenth -- and she did, she was that hifalutin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West] Reference

That's what men want, not hifalutin 'mind cures delivered at long range. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brentons] Reference

And remember, nothing hifalutin; just the same old darky songs you used to sing. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories] Reference

A select litany of defunct gentlemen, with hifalutin titles who had departed this life during the present week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Midnight Queen] Reference

"I'm going where I can live a busy, useful life -- not a Butterfly existence, with nothing to occupy my mind but art and hifalutin lingo!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ptomaine Street] Reference

“Jest like her mother, full of hifalutin notions, discontented, and sot in her own idees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Work] Reference

Ella, she's more hifalutin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie's Vacation] Reference

"Oh, come, cut out the hifalutin 'talk!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Raspberry Jam] Reference

Oh! for goodness 'sake drop that hifalutin' tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference

She sure has a hifalutin 'opinion of herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snowflakes in Hell] Reference

"have I got to bring these hifalutin creatures down to earth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ptomaine Street] Reference

Seems to me that's a little hifalutin '. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eagle's Heart] Reference