1
as in disdaining
to show contempt for
one presidential candidate presents himself as an outsider who has long been high-hatted by the Beltway elite
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as in isolating
to deliberately ignore or treat rudely
was high-hatted by an old college friend who's now a power player on Wall Street
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Chechen media reported Wednesday that Russian forces were repelling drone attacks in the region.—
Rebecca Falconer,
Axios,
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But that decline can be understood as a pragmatic understanding of the difficulties of repelling an invading force.—
Anton Grushetskyi,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Dec. 2024
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“High-hatting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high-hatting. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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