highflown in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

highflown in the PONS Dictionary

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It is high-flown, heavily decorated and solemn, but its solemnity is thorough going, not a mere literary formality.
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I think that might be a bit high-flown.
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For instance, their improvised responses must rhyme, phrases should be in an 8, 7, 8, 7 syllabic structure, and singers must use high-flown language.
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Kay bravely winds high-flown phrasing around the bones of a melodramatic plot.
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The three express their feelings in long passionate speeches, consumed with high-flown notions of love and honour.
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Instead, he wants to expose the rickety foundations that high-flown rhetoric can obscure.
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That is the case being made even by the sort of intellectuals who might have been engaging in more high-flown arguments not long ago.
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He answered me with an indecipherable, high-flown metaphor.
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It's a high-flown exercise in theatrical silliness for its own splendid sake.
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His style was somewhat high-flown.
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