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haughty
[ haw-tee ]
adjective
- disdainfully proud; scornfully arrogant; snobbish; supercilious: a haughty salesclerk.
haughty aristocrats;
a haughty salesclerk.
Synonyms: contemptuous, disdainful, lordly
Antonyms: unassuming, unpretentious, humble
- Archaic. lofty or noble; exalted.
haughty
/ ˈhɔːtɪ /
adjective
- having or showing arrogance
- archaic.noble or exalted
Derived Forms
- ˈhaughtily, adverb
- ˈhaughtiness, noun
Other Words From
- haugh·ti·ly adverb
- haugh·ti·ness noun
- o·ver·haugh·ti·ly adverb
- o·ver·haugh·ty adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of haughty1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
But haughty talk may not dissuade Italians from following their former leader.
But these are not times when we need to be uplifted and showered with haughty rhetoric.
They have to rebut his lies, and they have to do it without sounding bitter or afraid or superior or haughty.
And not the least haughty or intimidating or acerbic, but helpful, constructive, and conscientious.
But at the instant I caught a sight of my counterfeit presentment in a shop window, and veiled my haughty crest.
A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
Under the long lashes of low lids a pair of eyes black and insolent set off the haughty lines of her scarlet lips.
He passed them by, and haughty tenor and swaggering basso again took heart of grace.
This haughty Countess, by the way, has always had a great fascination for me, because she looks like a woman who "has a history."
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