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High-flown   /haɪ-floʊn/   Listen
adjective
High-flown  adj.  
1.
Elevated; proud. "High-flown hopes."
2.
Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language.





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"High-flown" Quotes from Famous Books



... blue ribbon between the faded leaves. A tremor ran through her limbs, and going to the window she placed the book upon the sill and read the words aloud in the fragrant stillness. Behind her in the dim room Dan seemed to rise as suddenly as a ghost—and that high-flown chivalry of his, which delighted in sounding phrases as in heroic virtues, was loosened from the ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... associated with the greater number of them. Give a clever young medical student a book about aural or dental surgery to review, and the chances are ten to one that the criticism will be little else than a high-flown grandiloquent treatise on the wonders of the creation. A regular "literary hack" will do the ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various
... got nothing to do," old goody Liu said, "a few of us too often come together and play this sort of game; but the answers we give are not so high-flown; yet, as I can't get out of it, I'll ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... before, the Senator broke in upon us with his cheery, charming voice, "Guess you two are talking like high-flown poet coons," he said, "and there is breakfast to be thought of, and happy things like that." And then as Nelson went in front he stepped back and put his kind hand under my chin, and raised it and looked straight into ...
— Elizabeth Visits America • Elinor Glyn
... know my views. I want you to be just a sensible, good child, without any of those high-flown notions. When we return to town you must make up for your long holiday. You must do your lessons with extreme care, and try ...
— Daddy's Girl • L. T. Meade


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