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Roget 884: boasting etc. v.; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant [Fr.]; vainglorious etc. (conceited) 880; highfalutin, highfaluting^†; spread-eagle [U.S.].    elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts.    vaunted etc. v.. ... meer laten zien

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Roget 206: on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind^†; upstairs, abovestairs^†; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high.    over, upwards; from top to bottom etc. (completely) 52.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 307: on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs.   

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Roget 549: exaggerated etc. v.; overwrought; bombastic etc. (grandiloquent) 577; hyperbolical^†, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre [Fr.], highflying^†.    ... meer laten zien

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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