Definitions
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- adjective
posh ,prestigious , - adjective pretentious
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Examples
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“You think yer so big with all yer dictionary learning and la-de-da long sentences!”
Ethics and Enthusiasm Hal Duncan 2009
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I've always noticed it's the fastidious, la-de-da ones that turn out the rottenest.
CHAPTER I 2010
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We just reported the damn thing with as little la-de-da as possible. '
News Blues 2009
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To this end, I tend to avoid some of the elements of reviewing that have become tropes of the genre, i.e., plot summary, literary genealogy, random quotes, la-de-da.
- r_urell 2007
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I ` m saying 23rd birthday, is she likely, given what you know, to just sort of say, la-de-da, I ` m here and I ` m going to make the best of it.
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We just reported the damn thing with as little la-de-da as possible.
News Blues 2009
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It ` s just like, oh, la-de-da, I ` m going on a ride up PCH.
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Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Allen muse Scarlet Johansson) are two American la-de-da friends of very different temperaments on holiday in Spain when they both fall for the same hot Spanish painter (Javier Bardem).
Sara Vilkomerson's Guide To This Week's Movies: Ten Best of '08 2008
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During this time, I'd be walking around, feeling just fine, thank you, la-de-da de-da.
Karen Salmansohn: Seek Out The Happiness In All Of Life's Crappiness 2008
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Partly it is an effort to find a responsive human chord in one associated with all that la-de-da kingly English history stuff from school.
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