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[ hahy -soun -ding ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈhaɪˈsaʊn dɪŋ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective having an impressive or pretentious sound; grand: the high-sounding titles of minor officials.
Origin of high-sounding First recorded in 1550–60
Words nearby high-sounding high seas, high season, high sign, Highsmith, high society, high-sounding , high-speed, high-speed downlink packet access, high-speed steel, high-spirited, high spirits
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Example sentences from the Web for high-sounding He gave himself a high-sounding title: Photo Coordinator for the Western Front.
From Robert Capa’s Editor, Unearthed Scenes of Normandy, Summer 1944 | Christopher Dickey| June 6, 2014| DAILY BEAST
It certainly seems to have the high-sounding tome of a presidential pronouncement.
The Obama Doctrine At Last? | Andrew Roberts| February 27, 2011| DAILY BEAST
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In his reply he did not fail to introduce the high-sounding words "liberty and equality."
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
It is a cruel thing that people should be deluded out of their savings by high-sounding names.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893 | Various
Gradually the explanations became less vague and high-sounding .
Eskimo Life | Fridtjof Nansen
All the high-sounding arguments for a moral world and all the laws on the books implementing those arguments are just eyewash.
The House from Nowhere | Arthur G. Stangland
Nothing pleases an ignorant person so much as a high-sounding term, full of fury.
The Slang Dictionary | John Camden Hotten
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British Dictionary definitions for high-sounding adjective another term for high-flown
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Words related to high-sounding aureate, bombastic, booming, declamatory, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, high-flown, loud, magniloquent, orotund, overblown, powerful, resounding, rhetorical, rich, ringing, rotund, swollen, reverberating