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adjective exaggerated or pretentious in style or language

• The speaker's high flown rhetoric impressed the audience at the academic conference.
• I couldn't understand all the high flown language in that book.
• His high flown ideas are way too out there for me.
• Her dreams were always high flown, reaching for the stars.

noun a sermon or speech that is intended to provide moral or spiritual guidance

• The priest delivered a powerful homily during Sunday mass.
• I always tune out during the long homily at church.
• The homily at the service was a real snooze-fest.
• Her speech was more like a homily on the importance of hard work.