| 词汇 | hoity-toity |
| 释义 | hoity-toity adjective informaldisapprovinguk /ˌhɔɪ.tiˈtɔɪ.ti/ us /ˌhɔɪ.t̬iˈtɔɪ.t̬i/ behaving as if you are better or more important than other people自高自大的，傲慢的 Synonyms highfalutininformal la-di-daold-fashionedinformal acting as if you are more important than other people arrogantI can't stand how arrogant he is! proudDon't be too proud to admit you're wrong. pompousWhat a pompous jerk! self-importantThe room was filled with self-important politicians. superiorHer superior and smug manner made conversation unbearable. Showing arrogance and conceit (as) proud as Luciferidiom airs and gracesidiom arrogant arrogantly as if you owned the placeidiom egoistic egoistically egomaniacal egomaniacally egotistic patronizingly pomposity pompous pompously popinjay swollen head swollen-headed talk down to someone think the (whole) world revolves around youidiom throw your weight aroundidiom Examples of hoity-toityhoity-toity It is not a matter, therefore, of being hoity-toity about it on our part. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I ask him not to be hoity-toity and encourage hoity-toitiness on the part of his opposite number. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I ask that, please, we should not be hoity-toity about the wages of people who are receiving just over £50 a week as against what the directors receive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is a hoity-toity yet conservative man worried about values and aesthetics in present society. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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