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High-toned

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a pretentious, high-class attitude

    "A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is—as a general thing. In most countries they’re awful high up in the nobility—dukes and such."

Adjective
  1. 1
    pretentiously elegant wordnet

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