high-toned Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite pretentiously elegant
    high-class.
    • a high-toned restaurant

WordNet

High"-toned` adjective
Definitions
  1. High in tone or sound.
  2. Elevated; high-principled; honorable.
    In whose high-toned impartial mind Degrees of mortal rank and state Seem objects of indifferent weight. Sir W. Scott.
    3. pretentious, pompous.

Webster 1913