How To Use Hoity-toity In A Sentence
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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
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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?
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She's not a hoity-toity legal type, but very ordinary and down-to-earth.
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This happened in hoity-toity homes, nudnick neighborhoods, or wonky workplaces.
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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.
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ADAM: Methinks we're going to meet lots of parents, including the hoity-toity British mother and father of Walden's new girlfriend.
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‘Well so are you,’ Krist returned haughtily, in his snooty, hoity-toity accent.
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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
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Deana was from a hoity-toity family, see, and was all set to attend an Ivy League school of her choice for college.
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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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There are hoity-toity rich people just around the corner.
Uprising
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Now the Perth Concert Hall is a fairly austere hoity-toity kind of swankpot, people stay in their seats, clap, cheer, maybe take photos.
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It has allowed Mrs. Palin to dismiss any criticism of her—no matter how straightforward—as yet more hostility from opponents, or as hoity-toity blather from inside-the-Beltway mopes.
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It is important to remember that the Toronto International Film Festival started out as a very small event in 1976, and only over the years has it grown to become the hoity-toity film industry behemoth that it is.
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That Russian spokesperson was a bit hoity-toity, wasn't she?
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You'll have seen them on TV, usually with a double-barrelled name, a hoity-toity accent and a self-appointed mission to keep Scotland in the Dark Ages.
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She was a hoity-toity type who never lifted a finger to earn her keep and was only good at spending her daddy's money.
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You'll have seen them on TV, usually with a double-barrelled name, a hoity-toity accent and a self-appointed mission to keep Scotland in the Dark Ages.
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The Dursley friends recieved the packet you sent by Parcel, and are all hoity-toity, and so could I, was I going to ride home with them.
Letter 270
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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
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A girl from highschool was there with some of her hoity-toity friends, who I didn't know.
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‘They see people in the country as hoity-toity but nothing could be further from the truth,’ he said as we pulled into the driveway of his fifteenth-century home, Kilhenzie Castle.
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I'd forgotten that I lived in a hoity-toity school district where kids driving thirty-thousand dollar cars were the rule.
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They hail from an upper-class hoity-toity milieu — they met at the superfarty Wellington College — so I can only imagine how bizarre and declasse it must seem to their friends and family that they chose to enter the shmatte business.
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I do not know why people think I am hoity-toity or a snob!
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The road would through a sixties/seventies section of hoity-toity Edina, the rich neighborhood of Minneapolis' postwar ascendant period.
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The way he talks - his British accent makes him sound so hoity-toity and full of himself, which he is!
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He's a troubled kid at a fancy, hoity-toity high school, says Mitchell.
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She'd then hire a limo and tell us that she would meet us at whatever hoity-toity expensive restaurant my dad had chosen to take us to dinner at.
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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
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Nor are films split between hothouse esoterics distributed solely to hoity-toity boutique venues versus "crowd-pleasers" shown in every mall (besides, Hellas doesn't have malls - it has small shopping courtyards).
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Andreadis Unibrow Theory of Art
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Of course, one event can only do so much, and for Toronto, there's still lots of room to reach more people who don't necessarily go in for hoity-toity fashion events.
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My eye was caught by her hoity-toity reference to the use of bedding plants in ‘sad seaside towns’.
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Or is he just downright hoity-toity, with that nose in the air and far-off stare?
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All those Visa bills and other credit card bills are keeping these hoity-toity stores in business, obviously.
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These/You people (lawyers) are an elitist, hoity-toity club.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation
