high-flown en el Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Traducciones de high-flown en el diccionario inglés»español (Ir a español»inglés)

high-flown [ingl. am. ˈhaɪ ˈˌfloʊn, ingl. brit. ˌhʌɪˈfləʊn] ADJ.

language [ingl. am. ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ, ingl. brit. ˈlaŋɡwɪdʒ] SUST.

3.1. language C (particular tongue):

Véase también: second language

Traducciones de high-flown en el diccionario español»inglés (Ir a inglés»español)

redicho (redicha) ADJ. coloq.

1. libro TIPOGR.:

a cookery book ingl. brit.
to use high-flown o highfalutin language
to lose the knack coloq.
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high-flown en el diccionario PONS

inglés americano

Ejemplos monolingües (no verificados por la redacción de PONS)

inglés
Aimed high without being high-flown, her speech just poured from her.
www.telegraph.co.uk
And to our ears that sounds very, very esoteric and very high-flown.
www.npr.org
He answered me with an indecipherable, high-flown metaphor.
time.com
He caught its mood in pieces which turn their back on technical sheen, grand dimensions and high-flown sentiments.
www.telegraph.co.uk
This high-flown phrase has a down-to-earth meaning, denoting the short-sightedness that afflicts elected governments.
www.thestar.com
Kay bravely winds high-flown phrasing around the bones of a melodramatic plot.
www.ft.com
It's a high-flown exercise in theatrical silliness for its own splendid sake.
www.independent.co.uk
Their rhythms were untutored, careening out of control in exhilarating ways; their lyrics came unadorned with poetry or high-flown sentiment.
www.theglobeandmail.com
Instead, he wants to expose the rickety foundations that high-flown rhetoric can obscure.
newrepublic.com
Interludes came to be replaced as expressions of public drama by a high-flown and imagistic preaching style and dialogues on moral issues such as temperance.
en.wikipedia.org

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