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What does arty-farty mean?

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Adjective
  1. Self-important or self-indulgent, especially when describing an artistic project.
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My publishers are farting around at the moment but they will bring it out in a kind of lavishly tooled arty-farty volume.
It sounded like the sort of soaring, gorgeous, melancholy stuff Radiohead used to write before they got too arty-farty to bother with tunes.
I don't see many arty-farty bodies supporting, say, writers of romantic fiction.
He merely finds it difficult to understand what the two of them, the light-headed rich daughter and the arty-farty, pseudo-intellectual woman about town, see in each other.
After checking in with the receptionist, I was directed to sit next to one of those pieces of modern installation art you typically see around arty-farty offices of late.
I don't think it would go down very well and would be seen as another arty-farty scheme.

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