hauteur
haughty manner or spirit; arrogance.
Origin of hauteur
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How to use hauteur in a sentence
Swinton has an especially good command of vampire hauteur.
For all his reputation for hauteur, I would forever after remember this evidence of Vidal's graciousness and self-confidence.
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"Thank you, Dr. Weirmarsh, but I cannot see that my private affairs are any concern of yours," she replied with some hauteur.
The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le QueuxShe received her guest's protest with the utmost hauteur, and when we left the altercation was still in progress.
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Her hauteur and coquetry subdued most of her maternal sentiments.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheShe demanded rather than asked to see my mistress, with a hauteur born of the arctic snow.
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British Dictionary definitions for hauteur
/ (əʊˈtɜː) /
pride; haughtiness
Origin of hauteur
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