hoity-toity

ADJECTIVE
  1. affectedly genteel
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How To Use hoity-toity In A Sentence

  • The rhetoric of prejudicial disdain is meted out, on the one hand against the “hoity-toity”, and on the other against the “hoi poloi” -- against the “snob” with complex tastes and the “pleb” with simple tastes. Archive 2009-06-01
  • Don't the good citizens of York, who live here year in, year out, deserve their city to be enhanced irrespective of any hoity-toity invasion?
  • She's not a hoity-toity legal type, but very ordinary and down-to-earth.
  • This happened in hoity-toity homes, nudnick neighborhoods, or wonky workplaces.
  • And both are scared of reality TV - ostensibly because it degrades people, but actually because it shoves real, imperfect people in the faces of hoity-toity reactionary and liberal alike.
  • ADAM: Methinks we're going to meet lots of parents, including the hoity-toity British mother and father of Walden's new girlfriend. Mega Buzz: New Loves on Big Bang Theory, House and Lots of Grey's Anatomy Tears
  • ‘Well so are you,’ Krist returned haughtily, in his snooty, hoity-toity accent.
  • For those who don't know, Easton Press publishes hoity-toity, leather-bound version of books with gilded pages and a built-in bookmark ribbon. Book Store Splurge
  • Deana was from a hoity-toity family, see, and was all set to attend an Ivy League school of her choice for college.
  • We're not claiming to be some hoity-toity authorities on the subject, but we do love our films, and we're going to share them all with you.
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