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Recent Examples of fancy-pants
The surprise of Clover Hill is not that this sort of food is on offer in an outer borough—with its concentration of zillion-dollar brownstones and fancy-pants residents, Brooklyn Heights isn’t exactly salt of the earth.
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
But no—not good enough for these fancy-pants mathematicians who need their own set of characters just to feel special.
—Eli Burnstein, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
With crust that's beautifully singed and wondrously puffed, the not-so-basic numbers are polished with fancy-pants ingredients—from Calabrian chile, fennel and sausage to a cacio e pepe riff made with velvety cream sauce, formaggi al pepe and pecorino.
—Brooke Viggiano, Chron, 12 Mar. 2023
Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
But no—not good enough for these fancy-pants mathematicians who need their own set of characters just to feel special.
—Eli Burnstein, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
With crust that's beautifully singed and wondrously puffed, the not-so-basic numbers are polished with fancy-pants ingredients—from Calabrian chile, fennel and sausage to a cacio e pepe riff made with velvety cream sauce, formaggi al pepe and pecorino.
—Brooke Viggiano, Chron, 12 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fancy-pants
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Some implied Hill was pretentious for citing Sam Peckinpah, Martin Scorsese, and Taxi Driver as the film’s influences.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
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Like David, Danson appeared as a pretentious and smug version of himself on the beloved series.Esther Kang, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Over-indexing on strategy may lead to grandiose ambitions that wilt without the tactical discipline, metrics, and incentives that drive performance.Mark Nevins, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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And then there is Trump himself, who has grandiose ideas of his own, such as taking back control of the Panama Canal, levying tariffs on Mexico and Canada, purchasing Greenland, and getting countries in the region to accept U.S. deportees whose home countries have repeatedly refused to take them.Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
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The disapproval is exemplified by a pompous New Yorker interviewed on the street by young fans.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2024
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Bonneville, as the ineffectually pompous Mr. Brown, always gives the impression of having a whale of a time.Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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Borrowers have been defrauded through tactics such as providing inflated job placement numbers or deceptive recruiting tactics.Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2025
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This year’s increase would compare with a 0.4% rise in 2024 following drops of 7% and nearly 15% in 2023 and 2022, respectively, from inflated prices during the Covid-19 pandemic.Michael Wayland, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
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How to Play 'Connections' The categories vary in difficulty from yellow to green to blue to purple, with yellow considered the easiest category and purple the trickiest.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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Desert shrubs, cottonwood trees, and yellow and purple wildflowers added splashes of color against the rocky backdrops, nourished by the water that brings life to the canyon floor.Derek M. Norman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
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Without ornate defensive features or the huge size of its fellow dinosaurs, Fona likely had to rely on speed, agility and alertness to best its predators.Scott Travers, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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For a less ornate option, the Container Store stocks an especially convenient acrylic jewelry wall rack with 11 pegs.Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 2 Jan. 2025
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When Scharf assumed the CEO role in 2019, Wells Fargo had one of the most bloated expense bases out of all the big banks.Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
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Moreover, be mindful of the risk of becoming bloated like some legacy software solutions.Ayesha Mahmood, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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Mufasa opens in the stilted aftermath of the 2019 movie (also written by Nathanson).Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
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The rooms The camp has just nine tents branching off a stilted wooden walkway with plenty of space in between.Chris Schalkx, AFAR Media, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Fancy-pants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancy-pants. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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