haughty

IPA: hˈɔti

adjective

  • Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
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Examples of "haughty" in Sentences

  • Honora is a bit haughty and stingy.
  • The amusingly haughty minion tells Sam.
  • He himself was proud and haughty in his bearing.
  • He also gives the impression they are very haughty.
  • And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
  • Tathagres sat up, her expression haughty beneath tangled hair.
  • "It is I, who am to be first obeyed," said he in haughty tones.
  • Janet Bronaugh used the term haughty culturalist in a 2003 article for Phipps
  • Then he marched tremendously back to the main door, his chin high, his expression haughty, his backbone rigid.
  • "The English mean to make slaves of us," they said, in haughty indignation, and soon a plot to murder all the British was formed.
  • Cowboy boots and hats might be unusual in haughty Charlottesville or super-snobby Alexandria, but not so odd in many other parts of the state.
  • He stood before the fire, his hands behind his back, his booted feet slightly apart, his expression haughty and cold, at variance with what he was saying — or perhaps not.
  • She was trying to keep her expression haughty, Chekov suspected, but the flush of girlish anger that leapt into her cheeks when Uhura drew alongside her betrayed more than he thought she realized.

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