Synonyms of hoity-toity

hoity-toity 1 of 2

adjective

as in arrogant

informal having or showing the insulting attitude of people who think that they are better, smarter, or more important than other people

a bunch of hoity-toity snobs

Related Words

• arrogant
• important
• smug
• vain
• proud
• uppity
• high-and-mighty
• pretentious
• bumptious
• conceited
• vainglorious
• pompous
• highfalutin
• ostentatious
• egotistic
• high-minded
• presumptuous
• self-important
• grandiose
• high-handed
• prideful
• egoistic
• snobbish
• complacent
• snobby
• la-di-da
• imperious
• affected
• high-hat
• self-satisfied
• self-centered
• grandiloquent
• overweening
• supercilious
• self-complacent
• haughty
• snippy
• high-sounding
• self-obsessed
• sententious
• self-conceited
• high-toned
• cavalier
• rude
• disdainful
• self-assertive
• self-pleased
• high-flown
• superior
• self-asserting
• stuck-up
• self-aggrandizing
• aggressive
• lordly
• airy
• self-glorifying
• self-dramatizing
• boastful
• confident
• bragging
• self-promoting
• impudent
• cocky
• insolent
• brassy
• glitzy
• showy
• cheeky
• gaudy
• sure
• self-assured
• flamboyant
• garish
• bold
• assertive
• self-confident
• flashy
• audacious
• braggart
• flaunting
• splashy
• forward

Dissimilar Words

• humble
• lowly
• unassuming
• meek
• homely
• down-to-earth
• passive
• retiring
• timid
• quiet
• bashful
• demure
• shy
• unassertive
• reserved
• mousy
• modest
• unpretentious
• diffident
• overmodest

hoity-toity

2 of 2

noun

as in tomfoolery

Related Words

• tomfoolery
• craziness
• monkey business
• rigmarole
• witlessness
• absurdness
• monkeyshine(s)
• shenanigan(s)
• idiocy
• hot air
• madness
• kookiness
• inanity
• absurdity
• hocus-pocus
• asininity
• jazz
• claptrap
• folderol
• imbecility
• twaddle
• nonsense
• lunacy
• gas
• foolery
• baloney
• hogwash
• nuts
• balderdash
• trumpery
• blither
• piffle
• greek
• guff
• inaneness
• poppycock
• hokum
• insanity
• flapdoodle
• fatuity
• malarkey
• bilge
• double-talk
• hooey
• garbage
• blatherskite
• blather
• humbuggery
• bunkum
• crock
• tommyrot
• fudge
• bunk
• crapola
• fiddlesticks
• hokeypokey
• tosh
• codswallop
• blah
• drool
• taradiddle
• fiddle-faddle
• blarney
• silliness
• horsefeathers
• punk
• nerts
• stupidity
• drivel
• rubbish
• foolishness
• fiddle
• bosh
• hoodoo
• rot
• humbug
• folly
• beans
• bull
• muck
• applesauce
• trash
• flannel
• moonshine
• senselessness
• slush

Dissimilar Words

• reasonableness
• rationality
• sense
• common sense
• sensibleness
• horse sense
• judgment
• reasonability
• levelheadedness
• wisdom
• discernment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hoity-toity

Adjective

Yes, ping-pong … table tennis for you hoity-toity types. — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 25 Dec. 2025

Alas, there is no end in sight to the tornado of hoity-toity chaos that is Martin Levy. — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025

Not to be hoity-toity or artsy or whatever. — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2025

Noun

Most of the players immediately adopt exaggerated foppish courtier characters, complete with hoity-toity accents and hyperbolic graciousness. — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026

The estate played the home of Rose Byrne’s hoity-toity Helen Harris III in Bridesmaids (the backyard is where Kristen Wiig’s Annie detonated mid-bridal-shower, cookie in hand). — David Hochman, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Ditch your hoity-toity cocktail reception to get down with some hometown talent and hang with a hip-hop heavyweight. — Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Dec. 2024

From the hoity-toity BAFTAs to the jovial People’s Choice Awards, the events this past week were pretty varied. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2024

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