adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Clark never developed high-flown ideas about saving the world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And Jack, her husband, had had some high-flown notion of dedicating the lad to the cause.
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Besides, none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes.
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I should know by now that heavy drinkers are awfully fond of high-flown rationalisations for any brief spell of abstinence.
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Such a description might sound high-flown for a small, transitory occasion.