Example sentences for: hoity-toity

How can you use “hoity-toity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Q: Is there some sort of hoity-toity name you could give the procedure to make is sound kind of--I don't know--not stupid?

  • Among the first group are many children's words-- Georgy-Porgy, Henny-Penny, Turkey-Lurkey, kitchy-kitchy, lippity-lippity, piggly-wiggly . Among the second are fuddy-duddy, funny-money, hoity-toity, hokey-pokey, namby-pamby, shilly-shally, silly-billy, ticky-tacky, wishy-washy , and the double cited above, willy-nilly . The power gained through rhyme and rhythm seems to be directed by the diminutive suffix toward favorable or unfavorable meanings.

  • In 1933, Smith, a Texan, led a dusty group of cowboys to take the national championship away from the hoity-toity East Coast.

  • Even that was too much for the hoity-toity tabloid Globe , which said only that "Monica joked about her alleged romance by saying that she was 'special assistant to the president.'"


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