hightoned

That young buck was White men forced to live east of the mountains, all crammed into the old towns with all their lawyers and professors and hightoned people who never gave you room to breathe.

He Don't Know Him 2010

The New Orleans-born Jelly is cast out by his Creole family, hightoned mixed-bloods who scorn Jelly's lowdown music.

A Folk Hero's Hot Odyssey 2008

Because no one gave a damn about Bill Frist and his hightoned living habits.

Firedoglake » Wow, the race card so soon? 2006

How she could put on that hightoned manner like a hat and then just as easily discard it.

Twilight’s Child V.C. ANDREWS 1992

How she could put on that hightoned manner like a hat and then just as easily discard it.

Twilight’s Child V.C. ANDREWS 1992

The meetings were usually very sober and the atmosphere forbiddingly serious and hightoned.

Music and Musicians 1949

Not only has there been a succession of able and hightoned men with strong and instructive discourses, but the University has been made known to influential, representative men, not previously personally cognizant of its workings.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912

Judge MacRae was a broad minded man, an able lawyer, hightoned and honorable.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912

In other words, orderly, hightoned students, successful in their studies, put themselves into the power not only of the careless, unambitious pupils, but even of men not in the class at all.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912

The rest are dead: the courtly Hooper, the eloquent Mangum, Graves with his real genius for mathematics and rare sense of humor, and Grandy, loyal friend and hightoned gentleman, the first to lay down his work in the very beginning of its promise.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912