highfalutin

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Английский Язык - Турецкий язык
şatafatlı
dili tumturaklı
highfaluting
şatafatlı
highfaluting
{s} tumturaklı (üslup)
highfaluting
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Английский Язык - Английский Язык
Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard

It's only a matter of time before some highfalutin developer builds a huge hotel and ruins the scenery.

{s} pompous, full of self-importance
disapproval People sometimes use highfalutin to describe something that they think is being made to sound complicated or important in order to impress people. This isn't highfalutin art-about-art. It's marvellous and adventurous stuff. = pretentious. highfalutin language or behaviour seems silly although it is intended to be impressive - used to show disapproval (high + falutin, perhaps from fluting )
affectedly genteel
Self-important; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard
highfaluting
High-flown, bombastic language
highfaluting
{i} bombastic language, pompous talk
highfaluting
pompous, bombastic
highfaluting
{s} pompous, pretentious; unnaturally well-mannered; grandiose, highfalutin
highfaluting
pretentious
highfaluting
haughty
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