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How to pronounce “high-sounding”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of high-sounding with real speech in context.
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- The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
- Definition summary
- Having an elevated or moralistic tone; pompous.
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How to pronounce high-sounding
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
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Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Having an elevated or moralistic tone; pompous.
- Oratorial, sometimes to the point of sounding contrived.
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