Crossword-Solution: HIGHFALUTIN
We have 16 clues for the answer “HIGHFALUTIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pretentious: Colloq. | 1 answer |
| highfaluting | 1 answer |
| Fancy-pants | 3 answers |
| ___ of state | 4 answers |
| Dressy | 13 answers |
| Hoity-toity | 14 answers |
| fustian | 20 answers |
| declamatory | 21 answers |
| Garish | 43 answers |
| Flash-y? | 47 answers |
| Figurative. | 48 answers |
| Bombast | 52 answers |
| florid | 58 answers |
| Pretentious | 77 answers |
| Pompous ___ | 80 answers |
| Fancy | 122 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HIGHFALUTIN (5)
They're--theft and murder and highfalutin nonsense," said Hastings, not unconscious of his feeble anti-climax.
There was nothing highfalutin about her company manners--it was by this homely phrase that he differentiated this Dede on horseback from the Dede with the office manners whom he had always known.
Bah! Damn patriots! The upper classes are out for all they can get, and they befool the poor imbecile working man with all their highfalutin phrases to get it for them at the cost of his blood.
Collier's got a lot o' money of her own, an' she's got highfalutin' New York ideas that don't seem to jibe with mine.
She was so full of novels and poetry and dreaminess and highfalutin nonsense she couldn't see ANYTHING as it really was.
Quotes with HIGHFALUTIN (3)
The need of theory is supported by the eros of the philosopher. It is not the expression of his will to conquer nature. Therefore, the joys of contemplation are "immediate enjoyments," joys that belong intrinsically to contemplation, and they come without further setting of goals or justification to the one receptive to them. They are not tied to social use, neither dependent upon the opinion of others nor gained from the expectation of future glory. The love for the observat…
. . . when a woman has a husband And you've got none, Why should she take advice from you? Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare And all them other highfalutin' Greeks.
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1961–2018).