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high-flown

  [hahy-flohn]
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–adjective
1. extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc.
2. pretentiously lofty; bombastic: We couldn't endure his high-flown oratory.
Origin:
1640–50

Synonyms:
2. florid, flowery, magniloquent, grandiloquent.
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high-flown   (hī'flōn')
adj.  

  1. Exceedingly lofty or exalted: high-flown ideas about the history of Christianity.

  2. Highly pretentious or inflated: high-flown rhetoric.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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