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la-di-da
[ lah-dee-dah ]
interjection
- (used as an expression of derision directed at affected gentility or pretentious refinement.)
adjective
- affected; pretentious; foppish:
a la-di-da manner.
noun
- an affected or pretentious person.
- behavior or speech characterized by affected or exaggerated gentility.
la-di-da
/ ˌlɑːdiːˈdɑː /
adjective
- informal.affecting exaggeratedly genteel manners or speech
noun
- a la-di-da person
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Example Sentences
But la-di-da people also buy that water in Fiji and have it shipped thousands of miles, so maybe they would have been fine.
Outside on the landing Michael heard him say to his wife: "Stuck up la-di-da sort of a ——, isn't he?"
Yes, I could have been very rude to him; only it was beneath me, the uneducated la-di-da savage!
Mr. La-di-da, the prisoner, not in the dock, but seated in a chair before it.
You're enough to make a fellow drunk with your la-di-da behavior.
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