highfalutininformal
hoity-toityinformaldisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Affected & insincere
affectation
affected
affectedly
archly
artificial
feyness
forced
forcedly
fustian
glib
piously
ponce
ponce about/around
posey
preciously
sugary
super-smooth
superslick
talk the talk ... walk the walkidiom
theatricality
Examples of la-di-da
la-di-da
She used to think that climate change was too middle-class and la-di-da a cause for her taste.
From The New Yorker
If not exactly la-di-da, had it been in the mouth of some people it would have been considered a trifle thick.
From Project Gutenberg
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