词汇 | la-di-da |
释义 | la-di-da adjective old-fashionedinformal(alsolah-di-dah)uk /ˌlɑː.diˈdɑː/ us /ˌlɑː.diˈdɑː/ used to describe speech or behaviour that is not sincere because the person is pretending to belong to a higher social class(尤指女人)故作清高的,装模作样的,做作的 Synonyms highfalutininformal hoity-toityinformaldisapproving Affected & insincere affectation affected affectedly archly artificial feyness forced forcedly fustian glib piously ponce ponce about/around posey preciously sugary super-smooth superslick talk the talk ... walk the walkidiom theatricality Examples of la-di-dala-di-da She used to think that climate change was too middle-class and la-di-da a cause for her taste. From The New Yorker If not exactly la-di-da, had it been in the mouth of some people it would have been considered a trifle thick. From Project Gutenberg 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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