How To Use Haughtiness In A Sentence
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In spite of his crumpled suit, he still displayed an elegance such as the staff of Police Headquarters rarely have occasion to appreciate, an aristocratic elegance, with that hint of stiffness and restraint, that touch of haughtiness which is the peculiar attribute of diplomatic circles.
Maigret at the Crossroads
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‘Serves you right,’ Leigh said, with mock haughtiness.
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Rufinus passed along the ranks, and disguised, with studied courtesy, his innate haughtiness, the wings insensibly wheeled from the right and left, and enclosed the devoted victim within the circle of their arms.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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He seized upon the best apartments, and carried himself with so much haughtiness, that, provoked beyond endurance, I ordered my horse, and, accompanied by my honest courtiers, rode to Rouen to obtain redress from the governor.
The Scottish Chiefs
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The moment I lifted the 'portiere' the girl jumped up briskly and regarded me with a touch of haughtiness, meant, I think, to hide a slight confusion.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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My thesaurus gives the following synonyms: self-satisfaction, conceit, egotism, self-importance, haughtiness, vanity, hubris, arrogance.
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The Countess, fatigued and discontented, received the politeness of the abbess with careless haughtiness, and had followed her, with indolent steps, to the parlour, over which the painted casements and wainscot of larch-wood threw, at all times, a melancholy shade, and where the gloom of evening now loured almost to darkness.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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His solicitude about maintaining a certain order within the state was described as haughtiness and harshness, his preoccupation lest the precarious resources of the government be dissipated in useless expenditures was dubbed avarice, and the prudence which had impelled him to restrain the rash policy of expansion and aggression which Germanicus had tried to initiate beyond the Rhine was construed as envy and surly malignity.
The Women of the Caesars
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Smythe says, "They are generous, friendly, and hospitable in the extreme; but mixed with such an appearance of rudeness, ferocity and haughtiness, which is, in fact, only a want of polish, occasioned by their deficiencies in education and in knowledge of mankind, as well as their general intercourse with slaves.
Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion
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Because while The Auteur treated his fellow hacks with a haughtiness that made Louis XIV look like Michael Palin, it was as nothing compared to the froideur he reserved for football managers.
The Auteur proves his value in offhand dismissals of class acts | Harry Pearson
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She sails into the waves flanked by arrogance, haughtiness and false power.
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But that haughtiness is the most offensive to God which is supported and fed by the pretensions of holiness.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Cool green eyes assessed her confusion with the kind of haughtiness that was normally associated with royalty.
Mistress On Demand
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Control the fashion of your speech, I pray you, sir!" he said, with excessive haughtiness -- "The noble Laureate is my friend and host, -- I suffer no man to use his name unworthily in my presence!
Ardath
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Where was the nasal nerdy voice, the plaid suit, the snooty know-it-all haughtiness?
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There have been no temper tantrums, no documented instances of peevish bad behaviour or shirtiness, no haughtiness or snobbishness, no unguarded utterances, no drug-taking or public drunkenness, no unsuitable girlfriends: precious little, in fact, for the tabloids to get their teeth into.
Prince William: how he has coped with a life in the spotlight
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The haughtiness is a pathetic attempt at protective voodoo.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
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They perceive haughtiness, arrogance and all sorts of faults in people who are really totally indistinguishable from themselves.
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But he had an infatuate haughtiness as to the impossibility of his retreating, and as to his right to dictate your course.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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Haughtiness invites disaster , humility receives benefit.
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They grew heartily weary, and fiercely impatient of restraint, and though the firm, calm, steady strictness of the Knight was far preferable to the rude familiarity and furious passions of many a Castellane, there were many of the men-at-arms who, though not actually engaged in the conspiracy, were impatient of what they called his haughtiness and rigidity.
The Lances of Lynwood
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Annie excluded herself carefully from this part of the programme, with a kind of unapproachable haughtiness which had three strains of stubbornness and one strain of fiery youthful anger in its composition, while it was a complete enigma to May.
A Houseful of Girls
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That is why we hold in contempt those who, in the unbridled pride of their narcissistic haughtiness, for selfish interests, or even for filthy lucre in various places all over the world—even in our land a small group of such backsliders and traitors can be found - divorce and isolate themselves from their own people and its life and real interests and, with inexorable logic, become instruments of the antihumanistic forces of imperialism and, in its service, the heralds of disruption and discord among nations.
Making the History of 1989
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If they exchanged surreptitious winks over the appearance of Agatha, they are to be excused, for that lady's demeanor was one of frigid haughtiness, which is never quite impressive to those who live close to nature.
'Firebrand' Trevison
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Zeno used to invite those who called the haughtiness of Perikles a mere courting of popularity and affectation of grandeur, to court popularity themselves in the same fashion, since the acting of such a part might insensibly mould their dispositions until they resembled that of their model.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
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His bold and free demeanour, his attachment to rich dress and decoration, his inaptitude to receive instruction, and his hardening himself against rebuke, were circumstances which induced the good old man, with more haste than charity, to set the forward page down as a vessel of wrath, and to presage that the youth nursed that pride and haughtiness of spirit which goes before ruin and destruction.
The Abbot
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Haughtiness invites disaster , humility receives benefit.
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There's something so extraordinary about the pride, the haughtiness, the explicit sensuality of flamenco which is so unBritish.
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Page 297 to me that son altesse royale might be seriously hurt, that nothing in her demeanour had announced her, rank; and such a discovery might lead to increased distance and reserve in her future conduct upon other extra audiences, that could not but be prejudicial to her popularity, which already was injured by an opinion extremely unjust, but very generally spread, of her haughtiness.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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He had that good reason for sympathy with haughtiness and coldness, which is found In a fellow – feeling.
Dombey and Son
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His crushing critiques, if not born of arrogance, have at times been delivered with a haughtiness that practically swaggers across the page or the airwaves.
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Their faults can be as large in scale as their virtues, and an excessively negative Leonian can be one of the most unpleasant human beings imaginable, displaying extreme arrogance, autocratic pride, haughtiness, and excessive hastiness of temper.
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