haughty
- disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- Archaic. lofty or noble; exalted.
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imperious, snobbish, cavalier, indifferent, snooty, contemptuous, assuming, conceited, detached, disdainful, distant, egotistic, high, hoity-toity, lofty, overbearing, overweening, proud, reserved, scornfulExamples from the Web for haughty
Contemporary Examples of haughty
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.
Putting Words in Gore Vidal’s Mouth—a Copywriter Recalls the 1982 Senate CampaignRobert Chandler
August 6, 2012
Historical Examples of haughty
"I crave pardon," interrupted Aspasia, with haughty impatience.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
Notwithstanding her haughty air, she was said to be very good and kind.
The DreamEmile Zola
The haughty droop of the eyes was focussed now upon the Assistant Commissioner.
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
The haughty smile was yet on his lip when the door opened and the prince entered.
Calderon The CourtierEdward Bulwer-Lytton
"Which is as much as to say that I took it," burst from haughty Roland.
The ChanningsMrs. Henry Wood
haughty
- having or showing arrogance
- archaic noble or exalted