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overly fancy with little function; newfangled; complicated (What are you planning to do with that fancy-pants machine? • Fortified by years of greasy spoon eating, he's since borrowed nicer clothes to sneak into the more fancy-pants places. • The front room is a fun, inclusive (read: sing-along) place, with the back reserved for more fancy-pants cabaret events  wiktionary.org); superior or high-class in a pretentious way (A fancy-pants restaurant • In fact, I don't even think the fancy-pants restaurant has a changing table in the bathroom. • No fancy-pants lawyer would be able to sandbag me with illogical arguments, or Oprah melodrama. • That's why I was very excited to discover a small oasis of fancypants food in my neighborhood, called Choice. • When I was a kid we had to wear turtle shells and we didn't have any fancypants space Velcro to keep them on. • He is leaving the midwest and moving to fancy-pants San Francisco for some girl. • Many feature films make him wear a fancy-pants wig. • Anyway, I ordered some kind of fancy-pants beer from Ireland, called Smithwick's or some deal. • If you have a fancy-pants burning program, use that. • They put me up in this really fancy-pants place. • Felidia is this fancy-pants restaurant owned by Lydia, who is apparently a chef with a show on PBS. • Lisa's wary of expensive over-priced fancy-pants food. • I persisted, and we agreed that I could take the class with all these fancypants designers on probation. • Their money is as green as any fancy-pants grant. • I'm from West Virginia and don't usually go in for such fancy-pants things, but my wife convinced me to give it a try. • Toney and I attended a "travel show" last Saturday, at the new fancy-pants Hilton in downtown Scranton. • Beyond using simple, accurate language, you can use fancy-pants words. • "Blanching" is simply a fancy-pants way of saying boil for a minute or two. • Sometimes those fancy-pants restaurants are all style and no substance, but this place delivered. • And I venture to suggest that he makes most literary fancypants self-obsessives look like the rank amateurs that they are. • I owe you kitchenfuls of baked goods filled with expensive chocolate and fancy-pants butter. lexico.com); pretentious or fancy in an extreme or excessive way (Use of this phrase often indicates the speaker's annoyance: I'd rather go to a ball game than another one of your fancy-pants corporate events. • We don't need a fancy-pants vacuum, we just need one that can suck up dirt. thefreedictionary.com); overly elegant or refined; la-di-da (merriam-webster.com); fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified (collinsdictionary.com) |
