adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I hate it when people use highfalutin ' words when regular ones will do.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite all of the highfalutin gadgets, intelligence for the most part was extremely poor.
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If you call that highfalutin management science, then I am a highfalutin management scientist.
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Thus, when awards time arrives, the old inferiority complexes become a factor and decisions often go in vaguely highfalutin directions.