0 trying to seem very important or serious, but without having a good reason for doing so and looking silly as a result --
1 trying to seem very important or serious without having a good reason for doing so; pretentious: --
highfalutin language
They must not be disdainful of practical suggestions, which are more likely to do good to the country than some of the highfalutin discussions that we sometimes have.
We should not be too highfalutin about what constitutes development.
Surely the real object is not so highfalutin, but infinitely more practicable.
There is nothing very special, highfalutin or sinister about the way in which this is done.
I do not like to talk highfalutin stuff but it does seem to me to be an important point.
I know that this sounds highfalutin, perhaps ridiculous, to some, and so completely idealistic as to be impossible of any practical outcome.
We use all kinds of moral and highfalutin language about them, and we send them to prison.
All the fine highfalutin phrases about how to deal with inflation—we can all say a great deal about that subject.
