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la-di-da
[ lah-dee-dah ]
interjection
- (used as an expression of derision directed at affected gentility or pretentious refinement.)
adjective
- affected; pretentious; foppish:
a la-di-da manner.
noun
- an affected or pretentious person.
- behavior or speech characterized by affected or exaggerated gentility.
la-di-da
/ 藢濒蓱藧诲颈藧藞诲蓱藧 /
adjective
- informal.affecting exaggeratedly genteel manners or speech
noun
- a la-di-da person
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of la-di-da1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of la-di-da1
Example Sentences
鈥淚f you send him here, to this la-di-da school, he鈥檒l forget who he is and be afraid of his own people.鈥
"At the risk of sounding la-di-da, this is, truly, my Proustian madeleine."
And then, la-di-da, they鈥檒l go back to pretending this is a normal presidency rather than a runaway train.
There is a preposterous la-di-da in trying to use philosophy to make sense of Mr. Trump鈥攅ven dragging in, as I intend to do, the greatest of the pre-Socratic Greeks.
Mrs. Stahlbaum, laden with la-di-da airs and graces, needs a drink before her party guests arrive, and yet she truly loves her children.
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