Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inflated; puffed up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inflated, as with conceit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
inflated , as withconceit
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Examples
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I suspect that Pierre Trudeau's contempt for nationalism, may have stemmed from reading Toynbee, some of whose high-blown contributions to the London Observer I edited with delight in the 1970s.
Raymond Heard: In the Beginning, the Idea, the Word, Then Babble Raymond Heard 2011
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I suspect that Pierre Trudeau's contempt for nationalism, may have stemmed from reading Toynbee, some of whose high-blown contributions to the London Observer I edited with delight in the 1970s.
Raymond Heard: In the Beginning, the Idea, the Word, Then Babble Raymond Heard 2011
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They show that, for all the high-blown rhetoric on both sides, Labour's plan was for a 2.2% average annual cut to government departmental spending over the course of this parliament.
No Two Ways to Fix Britain's Budget Stephen Pollard 2011
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I suspect that Pierre Trudeau's contempt for nationalism, may have stemmed from reading Toynbee, some of whose high-blown contributions to the London Observer I edited with delight in the 1970s.
Raymond Heard: In the Beginning, the Idea, the Word, Then Babble Raymond Heard 2011
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The two charlatans — Rolfe, with his hauteur, baroque literary skill and priestly pretensions, and Backhouse, with his cool cunning, linguistic talent and high-blown pipe-dreams — had much in common, but nothing so important as that each found his perfect chronicler.
Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver Joseph Epstein 2011
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I suspect that Pierre Trudeau's contempt for nationalism, may have stemmed from reading Toynbee, some of whose high-blown contributions to the London Observer I edited with delight in the 1970s.
Raymond Heard: In the Beginning, the Idea, the Word, Then Babble Raymond Heard 2011
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I suspect that Pierre Trudeau's contempt for nationalism, may have stemmed from reading Toynbee, some of whose high-blown contributions to the London Observer I edited with delight in the 1970s.
Raymond Heard: In the Beginning, the Idea, the Word, Then Babble Raymond Heard 2011
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I suspect that Pierre Trudeau's contempt for nationalism, may have stemmed from reading Toynbee, some of whose high-blown contributions to the London Observer I edited with delight in the 1970s.
Raymond Heard: In the Beginning, the Idea, the Word, Then Babble Raymond Heard 2011
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I suspect that Pierre Trudeau's contempt for nationalism, may have stemmed from reading Toynbee, some of whose high-blown contributions to the London Observer I edited with delight in the 1970s.
Raymond Heard: In the Beginning, the Idea, the Word, Then Babble Raymond Heard 2011
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I suspect that Pierre Trudeau's contempt for nationalism, may have stemmed from reading Toynbee, some of whose high-blown contributions to the London Observer I edited with delight in the 1970s.
Raymond Heard: In the Beginning, the Idea, the Word, Then Babble Raymond Heard 2011
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