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UK
/hˈɔːti/
]
[ US /ˈhɔti/ ]
[ US /ˈhɔti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
haughty aristocrats
walked with a prideful swagger
some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
his lordly manners were offensive
a more swaggering mood than usual
very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
How To Use haughty In A Sentence
- haughty aristocrats
- It is I, who am to be first obeyed," said he in haughty tones. Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted
- True, Olbermann and Patrick would also make plenty of references to pop culture, but the references came across as charmingly haughty, as if the anchormen were showing us that they had interests that extended beyond the court or field. The Enthusiast
- Her haughty, combative approach did not endear her to the sons of empire. The Times Literary Supplement
- Most of the country's middle class sneer at her haughty manner and tacky personal style. Times, Sunday Times
- She was a lady of a haughty temper.
- My mother, who was as haughty as Lucifer with her descent from the Stuarts, and her right line from the _old Gordons, not the Seyton Gordons_, as she disdainfully termed the ducal branch, told me the story, always reminding me how superior _her_ Gordons were to the southern Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
- Her voice was thick with a Scottish brogue, which normally I would find fascinating, if she hadn't seemed like such a haughty snot.
- And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there. Poetry Friday
- Scientists will have to step out of their laboratories and humanists will have to give up their haughty disdain for modernity.