Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals):
— High-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school.

synoniemen: high-sounding, inflated.

Roget 880: vain, vain as a peacock, proud as a peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious, high-flown; ostentatious etc. 882; puffed up, inflated, flushed.    self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated; entente etc. (wrongheaded) 481; wise in one's own conceit, pragmatical^†, overwise^†, pretentious, priggish; egotistic, egotistical; soi-disant etc. (boastful) 884 [Fr.]; arrogant etc. 885.    unabashed, unblushing; unconstrained, unceremonious; free and easy.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 885: insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown.    flippant, pert, fresh [U.S.], cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert.    precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious.    bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushing^†, unabashed; brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame.    impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty^†; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury" [Macbeth]. ... meer laten zien

Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style:
— Argue in terms of high-flown ideals.

synoniemen: elevated, exalted, grand, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime.

Roget 878: dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial; lofty-minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled^†, high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned.    haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride.    supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant etc. 885; unblushing etc. 880.    stiff, stiff-necked; starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait-laced; prim etc. (affected) 855.    on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur [Fr.].    ... meer laten zien

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