Definition of "high-blown" [high•-blown]

• Inflated, as with conceit (adjective)

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• "I suspect that Pierre Trudeau's contempt for nationalism, may have stemmed from reading Toynbee, some of whose high-blown contributions to the London Observer I edited with delight in the 1970s."
• "They show that, for all the high-blown rhetoric on both sides, Labour's plan was for a 2.2% average annual cut to government departmental spending over the course of this parliament."
• "The two charlatans — Rolfe, with his hauteur, baroque literary skill and priestly pretensions, and Backhouse, with his cool cunning, linguistic talent and high-blown pipe-dreams — had much in common, but nothing so important as that each found his perfect chronicler."