Associations to the word «Highfalutin»

Wiktionary

HIGHFALUTIN, adjective. (US) (informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard.

Dictionary definition

HIGHFALUTIN, adjective. Affectedly genteel.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin