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inflated, high-flying, high-sounding

adj. pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"

lofty, exalted, high-minded, idealistic, noble-minded

adj. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"

honorable, honourable

adj. worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"

canonized, glorified

adj. accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing

reverend, sublime, revered, reverenced, venerated

adj. worthy of adoration or reverence

gallant, lofty, majestic, proud

adj. having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"

glorious

adj. having or deserving or conferring glory; "a long and glorious career"; "our glorious literature"

sacred

adj. concerned with religion or religious purposes; "sacred texts"; "sacred rites"; "sacred music"

pure

adj. (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"

angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted

adj. marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic beneficence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother"

august, revered, venerable

adj. profoundly honored; "revered holy men"

arty

adj. showily imitative of art or artists

artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty

adj. pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming

grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da

adj. affectedly genteel

jumped-up

adj. (British informal) upstart

upstart, parvenu, nouveau-riche, nouveau riche, parvenue

adj. characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position

overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

sesquipedalian

adj. given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"

ennobling, dignifying

adj. investing with dignity or honor; "the dignifying effect of his presence"; "the ennobling influence of cultural surroundings"

magnanimous, great-hearted

adj. noble and generous in spirit; "a greathearted general"; "a magnanimous conqueror"

ignoble

adj. completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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