Toploftiness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being toplofty. uncountable

    "He must have got his toploftiness about money at Yale, where, without a bean, pushing a broom, waiting table, tutoring, he had made his name and fame among the best-padded young men in the land."

Example

More examples

"He must have got his toploftiness about money at Yale, where, without a bean, pushing a broom, waiting table, tutoring, he had made his name and fame among the best-padded young men in the land."

Etymology

From toplofty + -ness.

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