Crossword clues for haughtiest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haughty \Haugh"ty\ (h[add]"t[y^]), a. [Compar. Haughtier (h[add]"t[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Haughtiest.] [OE. hautein, F. hautain, fr. haut high, OF. also halt, fr. L. altus. See Altitude.]
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High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic]
To measure the most haughty mountain's height.
--Spenser.Equal unto this haughty enterprise.
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Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.
A woman of a haughty and imperious nature.
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Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.
Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: haughty)
WordNet
See haughty
adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
[also: haughtiest, haughtier]
Usage examples of "haughtiest".
He selected the photo that seemed haughtiest, then methodically crushed the other six in his big gardener's left hand, as a first-beard adolescent crushes beer cans, and tossed the jagged balls into a tiger-skin wastebasket inset around its rim with genuine tiger teeth.
Chamcha noticed that the man had not fastened his belt, and pulled himself together, bringing his voice back to its haughtiest English pitch.