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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vocabulary
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high-toned
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synonyms: imperious, vainglorious, grandiloquent, supercilious, turgid, tumescent, fustian, orotund, orgulous, ~hauteur, thrasonical ???
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Definition:1. Having a pretentious, high-class attitudetext from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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“[...] 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.”
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
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They was as high-toned and well born and rich and grand as the tribe of Grangerfords.
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