HAMMER: The producers of Pam ` s new show are saying it ` s going to be highfaluting.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2008] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I Don't Pay Washington DC Parking Tickets] Reference

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 highfaluting phrase over here and would be used only as a show of erudition, and even those who know the phrase would I suspect be unable to tell you what exactly "privy" means.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS.] Reference

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, but of course there can be bad and worse and so on - there has been more and more legislation of this character, sometimes having these rather highfaluting titles such as University Acts.    From Wordnik.com.  [STATEMENT IN THE SPECIAL POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY] Reference

We in the communities, in the labour movement, in the schools, are saying it is not enough to write highfaluting theories about us, get doctorates in the process, and become so-called experts on this or that organisation or field, to develop your scathing critiques from the safe walls and desks of your professions, and thereby hope to gain acceptance or recognition in our daily struggles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of Resistence] Reference

I describe things totally accurately with no highfaluting nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Reference

Now, however, he felt that Gabriel's highfaluting nonsense was carrying him away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia] Reference

He's got to give up this highfaluting nonsense of his if he expects me to support him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia] Reference

After dinner her father pleaded for a music-hall as against what he called "some highfaluting, teacup English play.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Agony Column] Reference

The bombastic spread-eagle orator, the grandiloquent gas bag, the highfaluting stump speaker gain few verdicts and win small applause except from their clients.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Advice of Counsel] Reference

Thus, they assume that falsifying unpleasant facts is a right of the messengers of a truth so highfaluting that the average person is incapable to understand it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

The show unveils the mystery of great artistry, reminding viewers that art isn't just a highfaluting concept, but part of the daily grind along this mortal coil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metro Times] Reference

If there are any, these reading materials would be written in a foreign language or are full of complicated concepts and highfaluting terms that only lawyers or those who studied law could understand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bulatlat] Reference

Sachs was known for his elaborate, highfaluting use of language, and the hilarious speech Moore wrote for Wilson's introduction, which in essence tells us to turn off our cellphones, captures Sachs's ostentatious word play.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

He's got the highfaluting blood all right, but he is shy of the skads, so he protects his dignity and pride of race by bumming his way over the world, like an English milord with a ruined castle and an overdraft at the bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam] Reference

But more than disparage her state as insignificant, liberals have tried desperately to paint her as that backward rube who, like the folks in Kansas, isn't cosmopolitan enough to deal with the highfaluting rigors of Washington, DC, or the duties associated with being a vice president.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right Angle @ HumanEvents.com] Reference

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"And what will you do," I said, "with the big big big deng or money as you so highfaluting call it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where's the show?] Reference

There’s a lot of highfaluting optimism here that might flag or fail in the next 5 years, but I’m hoping this project goes as plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [10,000 Ebooks] Reference

And I must remember that even with all my highfaluting ideas and philosophies about food and cooking, when I’m tired and sore a simple meal such as a grilled cheese sandwich or scrambled eggs and a steamed artichoke, made in 15 minutes, is often the perfect meal — or would it have been if I’d had some wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feed Yourself] Reference

‘That’s highfaluting, Plantagenet.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prime Minister] Reference

Now, my beluved brethering, as I have afore told you, I am an unedicated man, and know nothing about grammar talk and collidge highfaluting; but I'm a plain, unlarnt preacher of the Gospil, what's been foreordained, and called to expound the scripters to a dyin 'world, and prepare a perverse generation for the day of wrath; "for they shall gnaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam, whar the lion roareth and the whang-doodle mourneth for its first-born.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference