Definition of "highfaluting" [highfaluting]

• Alternative form of highfalutin. (adjective)

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• "I like to think I'm engaged in a bit of civil disobedience, but that's an awfully highfaluting title for a simple act of citizen outrage."
• "HAMMER: The producers of Pam ` s new show are saying it ` s going to be highfaluting."
• "One voice is a "we" located in the Orthodox community who begins each chapter with highfaluting rumination on some Jewish topic, and goes on to narrate events from the perspectives of Dovid, the cousin, who is afflicted with colorful (literally) migraines, and Esti, the former lover, who appears to be autistic but turns out to be (I think) enlightened."