How To Use Haughty In A Sentence

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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

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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.
Her haughty, combative approach did not endear her to the sons of empire. The Times Literary Supplement
The whole equipment was that of a rude warrior, negligent of his exterior even to misanthropical sullenness; and the short, harsh, haughty tone, which he used towards his attendants, belonged to the same unpolished character. The Abbot
He was a very free-spoken man (the gentry of those days were much prouder than at present), and used to say to me in his haughty easy way, The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
Her haughty expression turned into stone at the mentioning of her father's advisor's name.
“Robert of Paris, a haughty barbarian,” with the “Robert called the Strong,” mentioned as an ancestor of Hugh Capet. Count Robert of Paris
He arose, but in the short interval, the throne had been hoisted from the floor to the ceiling, the Imperial figure appeared in new and more gorgeous apparel, and the interview was concluded in haughty and majestic silence. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
But if these historic anachronisms are to survive beyond the very short term they must quickly find a social role and shed the haughty isolationism which has shielded them from commercial realities.
Hear it and, at once, you can see her - blonde but not brassy, sexy but not tarty, dignified but funny, haughty but friendly.
Her haughty, combative approach did not endear her to the sons of empire. The Times Literary Supplement
The English mean to make slaves of us," they said, in haughty indignation, and soon a plot to murder all the British was formed. This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
Her haughty tone affected the third voice, giving him the impression that she was annoyed.
I guess the characters of the governess, the seemingly haughty and icy employer and the mad woman added to that impression.
An officer who headed them addressed Humphrey in a haughty tone, and asked him who he was. The Children of the New Forest
Her demeanor was proud and haughty, and her stance bespoke power and determination.
Towards the other wives and their children she was always extremely imperious, haughty and pretentious.
I will never unboot the son of a slave," said the haughty princess. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
Geoffroy tries to speak to them, a few words of Ibo, phrases in Yoruba, in pidgin, but they are always silent, not haughty, merely absent, disappearing rapidly in single file along the river, lost to view in the tall grass yellowed by drought. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Prose
These haughty barons who overstride the world, what are they in the day of adversity? The Fair Maid of Perth
Behold that [city] Babylon, haughty in the flower and pride of impiousness, and its inhabitants completely given over to sin of every description. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Cyclists feel aggrieved that they run the gauntlet of motorised traffic, which they also regard with haughty contempt.
He is haughty and imperious: He is a proud man, and his pride is a certain presage of his fall coming on. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
If ever been where bells have knolled to church"; if you have ever been within sound of Bow bells; if you have ever been happy and haughty enough to call yourself a Cockney. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
You have, for in stance, the military manner, which consists in well-squared shoulders, a well-belted waist, a regulation spine, an angular elbow, a click of the keels, a salute that is meant to be at once fascinating and haughty, and a pronounced contempt for everything civilian beneath the grade of a Privy Councilor or a First Secretary.
Sassarese accepted annually from the Genoese a Podesta, who swore fidelity to their constitution; and the Sassarese assert that while their city was under the protection of Genoa, they only styled that haughty republic in their statutes and diplomas, “_Mater et Magistra, sed non Domina: _” “_non Signora, ma Amica. _” Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
Thus full of contradictions, unbending yet haughty, gentle yet fierce, tender and again neglectful, he by some strange art found easy entrance to the admiration and affection of women; now caressing and now tyrannizing over them according to his mood, but in every change a despot. I.4
The report makes it clear that despite the haughty posturing of national security heavyweights, we do not have adults watching the store.
Her great conquests and the gifts they brought made her proud and haughty. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
In its details, whether we regard the haughty claims of delegated omnipotence advanced by Rome, or the carefully studied historical and canonistic arguments built up by Sarpi, the quarrel has lost actuality. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
Now it brightened once again, and he tossed back his lank hair with a haughty gesture. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
After he finishes something he imagines particularly clever, he ends up looking smug and haughty.
Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame, All their attempts to bend thee down Will but arouse thy generous flame; But work their woe, and thy renown.
Her carriage was royal, and her bearing haughty and most formal.
When she first meets people Penny is conceited and haughty.
Greta Garbo played tragic lovers, exotic temptresses and steely heroines, anchoring many mediocre melodramas and haughty period pieces like a pro.
She was trying to keep her expression haughty, Chekov suspected, but the flush of girlish anger that leapt into her cheeks when Uhura drew alongside her betrayed more than he thought she realized. Firestorm
She was unlike most nobles he had met; even as beautiful as she was, she was not haughty and vain.
But no matter about my spiteful little asides, my haughty disdain. Times, Sunday Times
What a revenge that would be, the proud and haughty Roman, the greatest flunker of them all, the Roman of the caustic tongue and the all-seeing eye, actually clinging to his hand, stammering out his thanks ... the Roman whose mocking voice still echoed in his memory, "Don't dream, John, don't do it! Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
The other person feels more relaxed with you and may find that there is no need to be aggressive or cold or haughty any longer. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
When she first meets people Penny is conceited and haughty.
The people who moved in the languid yet haughty movements of the ‘proper’ dances of the day seemed like ghosts to her, ghosts from a world which she did not know.
In reality, Fawzia was more shy than cold, and she certainly wasn't arrogant or haughty.
Those who live on thin, ill-watered, and bare soils, and not well attempered in the changes of the seasons, in such a country they are likely to be in their persons rather hard and well braced, rather of a blond than a dark complexion, and in disposition and passions haughty and self-willed. On Airs, Waters, And Places
Most of the country's middle class sneer at her haughty manner and tacky personal style. Times, Sunday Times
Besides, with all his respectful assiduities, it was easy to observe, (if it had not been his general character) that his temper is naturally haughty and violent; and I had seen too much of that untractable spirit in my brother to like it in one who hoped to be still more nearly related to me. Clarissa Harlowe
Ministers should bring to heel their overmighty subjects in Historic Scotland and end this haughty reign of feudalism.
She looked as imperious and haughty as ever; her graying blue-silver hair swept up into an intricate coif, the elaborate detail of its design matching even her extravagant evening gown.
Guys showing off their bulging biceps, big sideburns and carrying a haughty look are out.
Whether the black poor live or die seems to merit only haughty disinterest and indifference.
(he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Marine for a year preceding his retreat from his profession and from Europe), he possessed a latent warmth of feeling and a capacity for sympathy which were concealed by a sort of haughty, arbitrary indifference of manner arising from his early training; and by a something an enemy might have called foppish, in his aspect -- like a distorted echo of past elegance. The End of the Tether
Some feigned smiles, others looked away with haughty contempt.
She looked haughty and stuck-up, her face disdainful as she looked down at me.
Nor will it ever be forgotten how he humbled the pride of them that withstood him, and gathered to himself the confidence of the people, and submitted himself to the promptings of his conscience, and enraged Egypt's haughty aristocrats with his proposals and demands in behalf of the oppressed, and in the face of Egypt's armies led out the enslaved from the house of bondage, and saw the hosts of Israel's oppressors overwhelmed under The Assassinated President
What the fans should singRule Britannia Stadium, especially with its insistence that "Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame", seems about right for a side that bows to no one. Stoke City Premier League 2011-12 team guide
But it is Broome's legendary sunsets which we will never forget: blazing tangerine and crimson over the Indian ocean, shared with a train of haughty camels on the town's famous Cable Beach.
The other person feels more relaxed with you and may find that there is no need to be aggressive or cold or haughty any longer. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
The title hero is more aligned towards typical vampire behavior as an arrogant haughty alpha leader used to obedience until his dependant is abducted showing a rare weakness and then meeting the sleuth showing that rarity is a little more common than his minion thought. Raphael-D.B. Reynolds « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
There seems to be both a haughty reserve that keeps us at a distance during the soliloquies, and an absence of inner mystery to tempt our curiosity in the first place.
Her great conquests and the gifts they brought made her proud and haughty. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
Malvolio (Des McAleer) is a haughty major-domo, but where is his festering self-love and manic insecurity?
Even many who sympathize with his concerns find his combative style haughty and unforgiving.
The nobles treated the common people with haughty contempt.
The luxuries of a natch, and the peculiar Oriental beauty of the enchantresses who perfumed their voluptuous Eastern domes, for the pleasure of the haughty English conquerors, were no less attractive than the battles and sieges on which the Captain at other times expatiated. The Surgeon's Daughter
Although it originally had connotations of being gallant, in the context of the revolution the term cavalier would come to be used by the opponents of the king as a derogatory term for anyone who acted in an aristocratic or haughty manner. The Pawprints of History
The other person feels more relaxed with you and may find that there is no need to be aggressive or cold or haughty any longer. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
Now's the time when sports observers everywhere adopt a standard pose of indignation, a haughty pooh-poohing of the opinions of the masses.
Portia sat at the row behind them, filing her nails and looking imperiously haughty.
While he never diffused an aura of vanity, he held his fine features at a haughty tilt as though regarding himself dispassionately in an invisible looking-glass.
His face was cold and disdainful, and his back was straight with haughty pride.
And thus the dear, once haughty, assailer of Pamela's innocence, by a blessed turn of Providence, is become the kind, the generous protector and rewarder of it. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
They have with them an unutterable glory of conscious power, the magnificence of a perfect, God-given nature, such a haughty spirit of rivalless dominion as might have swelled the soul of a Jewish queen, monarch of Israel, ruler of God's chosen people in the day of their unbroken pride, when she felt that none greater than herself dwelt upon the globe. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
They became haughty and arrogant, and began to love the art of subterfuge and deception, as well as politics and law.
What the fans should singRule Britannia Stadium, especially with its insistence that "Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame", seems about right for a side that bows to no one. Stoke City Premier League 2011-12 team guide
Her great conquests and the gifts they brought made her proud and haughty. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
One has a look of perplexed surprise; the other, a haughty indifference.
Even his haughty, sullen expression enthralled her. Warlock
But no matter about my spiteful little asides, my haughty disdain. Times, Sunday Times
People don't see them as lacking in smarts, wit or attractiveness but as haughty and detached.
Hear it and, at once, you can see her - blonde but not brassy, sexy but not tarty, dignified but funny, haughty but friendly.
Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame, All their attempts to bend thee down Will but arouse thy generous flame; But work their woe, and thy renown.
And, if you imagined Hollywood stars to be haughty, snobbish creatures, you are way off the mark.
As he grew, the elders were amazed at his haughty manner and his constant likeness to his father. Vanity Fair
She looked haughty and stuck-up, her face disdainful as she looked down at me.
We never like a person who is haughty, too proud, or condescending.
What might happen if he allowed himself to leave the safety of haughty solitude and moral superiority, to love other human beings who are beyond his control?
He made a momentary show of haughty, indignant refusal, but a movement of my sword quelled the brief revolt in him. An Enemy to the King
His eyes were restless, his expression preoccupied, his manner haughty. The Hallam Succession
To brand it as arbitrary is a haughty act of intellectual hubris, thin in substance and contemptuous of our ancestors.
As he grew, the elders were amazed at his haughty manner and his constant likeness to his father. Vanity Fair
Russian Noblesse has little or nothing of what we call aristocratic feeling -- little or nothing of that haughty, domineering, exclusive spirit which we are accustomed to associate with the word aristocracy. Russia
Now, the national side, which once ruled the football world with a haughty confidence, is completely demoralized and there's less than a year to prepare for the great campaign on home ground.
Sheep as Welsh as Brother Cadfael gazed towards the southwest, where the long ridge of Berwyn rose in the distance; long, haughty, inscrutable faces, and sharp ears, and knowing yellow eyes that could outstare a saint. Monk's Hood
Tathagres sat up, her expression haughty beneath tangled hair. Stormwarden
No, this proud and haughty woman had returned to her father's palace, and was complaining there.
Her great conquests and the gifts they brought made her proud and haughty. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
Christine's acceptance by a haughty lady gallerist on the basis of a goofy videotape monologue seems a bit far-fetched.
The stereotypes, of course, change: before, it was the dark hair, the small and small-boned haughty elegance, the slightish mouth.
Athena's haughty gaze affixed him as if he were a naughty schoolboy.
Dunmore was certainly a haughty, irascible man, who made enemies easily and often.
He spoke in a haughty tone.
The more, therefore, an aristocracy calls to its aid its innate forces, -- its impenetrability, its high spirit, its power of haughty resistance, -- to deal with an epoch of expansion, the graver is the danger, the greater the certainty of explosion, the surer the aristocracy's defeat; for it is trying to do violence to nature instead of working along with it. Culture and Anarchy
One needed a title, however, to appreciate the majesty of the tall, ostentatious chairs with upholstered, haughty-looking backs and stretchers reinforcing the legs.
Gone was the haughty princess, and in her place stood a fragile girl wilting at his harsh words.
The men talk about him resentfully, sick of his haughty attitude and pretension.
He would be stuck up, haughty and stubborn most likely, but she knew that he was in her immediate future.
A haughty young lady in the dining-room, Birdie Callahan, in her stiffly starched white, but beneath the icy crust of her hauteur was a molten mass of good humor and friendliness. Fanny Herself
Difficult mountains can seem hostile, haughty and mocking, wanting very much to lure in climbers, to tempt them to painful deaths on jagged rock.
He was haughty, erratic, self-obsessed and his violin-playing was atrocious.
But no matter about my spiteful little asides, my haughty disdain. Times, Sunday Times
GLOSS: nere] nearer; yede] went; hett] promised; waite] take heed; baite] enticement, nourishment; in fere] together; dawngerouse] difficult of approach, haughty; farre] farther; narre] nearer Quia Amore Langueo
All that our diplomatic service has to do is ditch the haughty British sense of the high moral ground and grab some dollars. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the country's middle class sneer at her haughty manner and tacky personal style. Times, Sunday Times
And they sped to the tribe of the haughty Cephallenians, the people of patient-souled Odysseus whom in aftertime Calypso the queenly nymph detained for Poseidon. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Fastidious, clever, slightly skeptical, accustomed to the best society (he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Marine for a year preceding his retreat from his profession and from Europe), he possessed a latent warmth of feeling and a capacity for sympathy which were concealed by a sort of haughty, arbitrary indifference of manner arising from his early training; and by a something an enemy might have called foppish, in his aspect -- like a distorted echo of past elegance. Youth And Two Other Stories
This was equally difapproved of by the haughty Swedes, who immediately and em - phatically pronounced a general negative. A Tour Through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland and Denmark: In a series of letters, illustrated ...
In reality, Fawzia was more shy than cold, and she certainly wasn't arrogant or haughty.
A competition like the Mr. Olympia was the one place where they knew they wouldn't be treated to raised eyebrows and haughty sniffs when waxing poetic over the virtues of peaked biceps and washboard abs.
But no matter about my spiteful little asides, my haughty disdain. Times, Sunday Times
Towards the other wives and their children she was always extremely imperious, haughty and pretentious.
Nicolovius's haughty aloofness, his rigid uncommunicativeness, his grand ducal bearing and the fact that he paid eighteen dollars a week for a suite had of course made him a man of mark and mystery in the boarding-house, and in the romancings of Miss Miller he had figured as nearly everything from a fugitive crown prince to a retired counterfeiter. Queed
The haughty Servants meet him with a Frown.
Agrippa, with favouring winds and gods, proudly leads on his column; on his brows glitters the prow-girt naval crown, the haughty emblazonment of the war. The Aeneid of Virgil
Usually this happens when they say something in a very haughty tone that doesn't make any sense, as though I should have anticipated their screwball question.
Lastly, concerning the disdain to receive into natural history things either common, or mean, or oversubtle and in their original condition useless, the answer of the poor woman to the haughty prince who had rejected her petition as an unworthy thing and beneath his dignity, may be taken for an oracle: "Then leave off being king. The New Organon
I'm probably the haughty snoot that deters peasants from going to the Opera (all power to me, then!).
She looked as imperious and haughty as ever; her graying blue-silver hair swept up into an intricate coif, the elaborate detail of its design matching even her extravagant evening gown.
And thus equipped, everything is ready, Quinto mio; we turn our backs on haughty Milan, and nova regna petentes cras ingens iterabimus aequor, that is to say, the wide plains of Lombardy. A Siren
Because of her haughty deportment, she was given a denigratory name, “huldah,” meaning “weasel” (even the Aramaic translation of her name — karkushta — sounds ugly) (BT Megillah 14b). Huldah, the Prophet: Midrash and Aggadah.
Like a distressed aristo, the city used to be haughty. Times, Sunday Times
As a further point to be noted by some haughty officials, in Greece it is very much frowned upon for the local girls to so disrobe on the beach.
His voice sounded less haughty than it customarily did - but only slightly. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
The passage's haughty assurance raised a prickle of annoyance in Jeremiah.
Her svelte figure and air of haughty independence, which so obviously masked some tragic loneliness, suggested she'd never been a mother.
They grew haughty in their scorn, vain of their beauty, proud of their long life.
There's a certain subset of opera fans who dismiss Rossini comic operas with a haughty wave.
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
One has a look of perplexed surprise; the other, a haughty indifference.
The prophetic message consisted of three different portions: -- First, Sennacherib is apostrophized (2Ki 19: 21-28) in a highly poetical strain, admirably descriptive of the turgid vanity, haughty pretensions, and presumptuous impiety of the Assyrian despot. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
If he attempts to talk to you, you will flick him a haughty glance and say nothing.
Then he marched tremendously back to the main door, his chin high, his expression haughty, his backbone rigid. The Gray Dawn
He walks with a quick sure gait and the self-confidence of a haughty personage.
It is a face that masks emotion rather than displays it, a composed face, insular, a little haughty.
Her demeanor was proud and haughty, and her stance bespoke power and determination.
Her great conquests and the gifts they brought made her proud and haughty. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
He was aware that his ingratitude to his benefactress was the theme of general remark and reproach; and he apprehended, should the King fall a victim to one of those attacks of indisposition to which he was continually subject -- an event which had been foretold by the astrologers, and which was anticipated by his physicians -- that he should be unable to contend against the animosity of the irritated Princess, and the undisguised aversion of the Duc d'Orléans, who made no effort to conceal his dislike to the haughty minister, against whom he published during his sojourn at The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3
The ripples of their hair, drawn back from the broad brown brows and knotted in silken abundance at the nape, glitter like polished jet, and the fine, haughty, dark features lit with little points of gold – tiny studs set in the high nostrils and the upper rims of the little ears. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
He meets an Englishman on a French train who pleases him much, and the two become good friends and see Rome together, but the fellow's wife is "obstreperous" and "haughty in her manner" and so A Book of Prefaces
At the risk of sounding haughty, I would say that the art is mediocre.
He stood before the fire, his hands behind his back, his booted feet slightly apart, his expression haughty and cold, at variance with what he was saying — or perhaps not. Slightly Dangerous
They became haughty and arrogant, and began to love the art of subterfuge and deception, as well as politics and law.
He stoops to sign in, then turns to the friend with an expression of haughty disdain.
That the glory of their house, from very small beginnings, is increased greatly, which naturally makes men haughty, insolent, and imperious, Ps.v. 16. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
That fellow was so haughty that I was obliged to set him down.
The camera often lingers on Penn's face, vulpine in its haughty, unspoken anger and canine in its chronic defeat.
Phyllis was for one hour haughty and unforgiving over what she called his shameful neglect and, for another, in a fever of unrest to see him. Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War
As he grew, the elders were amazed at his haughty manner and his constant likeness to his father. Vanity Fair
Proud men are frequently most proud, and insolent, and haughty, just before their destruction, so that it is a certain presage that they are upon the brink of it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
She looked down at him, a haughty and imperious expression on her little face.
Others doubtless obtained the journal from the haughty brass-bound pursers (there are no "supercargoes" now) of the Sydney and The Call Of The South 1908
Cowboy boots and hats might be unusual in haughty Charlottesville or super-snobby Alexandria, but not so odd in many other parts of the state. Waldo Jaquith - Mike Shear on Allen’s cowboy schtick.
There the haughty face of an Akon officer looked down at him from the videoscreen. Good Night, Mrs. Calabash
He could not easily have found an excuse for this, however, and he was unwilling to give the haughty Donnerhugel the least suspicion that he was inferior in hardihood, or in the power of enduring fatigue, to any of the tall mountaineers, whose companion he chanced to be for the present. Anne of Geierstein
Jewess was deemed a sin, scarce expiable; and Isabel conceived all that horror of her son's offence which was natural in a pious mother and a haughty queen. Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete
It also brought to her recollection, that indolence and pride so often manifested in their hiring a market woman to follow them with the morsel they disdained to carry; while the haughty fool strutted on before, his ragged capota thrown over his arm to expose an old and rusty spado, as it dangled in useless state from a leathern belt. The Irish Guardian, or, Errors of Eccentricity
I have not slept in a solid bed for three weeks, you haughty wench, and I'll not have your condescending airs and your reproachful glances!
Germany, and the Lord knows where, may have changed her from a little bewitching, smiling, artless creature -- to a _vain, designing, haughty_, -- I could call a coquet by a thousand names; -- but Lady Barford Abbey
A haughty looking man thrust a plate full of beef stroganoff and rice at her before she trotted off after Alex and sat down.
An officer who headed them addressed Humphrey in a haughty tone, and asked him who he was. The Children of the New Forest
JOHNSON himself, we are told by one who knew him, "had always a metaphysical passion for one princess or other, -- the rustic Lucy Porter, or the haughty Molly Aston, or the sublimated methodistic Hill Boothby; and, lastly, the more charming Mrs. Thrale. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
Janet Bronaugh used the term haughty culturalist in a 2003 article for Phipps NYT > Home Page
Ferrari seemed still somewhat disturbed in his mind -- but even his uneasiness dissipated itself by degrees, and heated by the quantity of wine he had taken, he began to talk with boastful braggartism of his many successful gallantries, and related his most questionable anecdotes in such a manner as to cause some haughty astonishment in the mind of the Duke di Marina, who eyed him from time to time with ill-disguised impatience that bordered on contempt. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
His eyes turned rather eagerly towards the end of the room where the girl was standing alone, straight and slim, the light from an electrolier gilding the thick bright curls framing her beautiful, haughty little face. The Sheik
Or at least as haughty as she could pull off given the spiderwebs in her hair and her travel-stained clothing. Fire The Sky
An officer who headed them addressed Humphrey in a haughty tone, and asked him who he was. The Children of the New Forest
In the days prior to the fall which my haughty spirit merited, I was vain in the handling of a boat, and my little knowledge proved most dangersome to Paddy and others. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
Scientists will have to step out of their laboratories and humanists will have to give up their haughty disdain for modernity.

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