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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
haughty
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jessica turned away with a haughty look on her face.
▪ People thought of him as being haughty and difficult to talk to.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Are frowning and haughty tyrants to be preferred to generous Lords?
▪ Bella came out of prison as haughty as when she went in.
▪ If he attempts to talk to you, you will flick him a haughty glance and say nothing.
▪ She flicked him a haughty smile, then strode briskly on.
▪ Under different circumstances, this would have sounded patronizing, a wilted bouquet tossed by a haughty victor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haughty

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.]

  1. High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic]

    To measure the most haughty mountain's height.
    --Spenser.

    Equal unto this haughty enterprise.
    --Spenser.

  2. Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.

    A woman of a haughty and imperious nature.
    --Clarendon.

  3. Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.

    Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
haughty

1520s, an extension of haught (q.v.) "high in one's own estimation" by addition of -y (2) on model of might/mighty, naught/naughty, etc. Middle English also had hautif in this sense (mid-15c., from Old French hautif). Related: Haughtily.

Wiktionary
haughty

a. Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.

WordNet
haughty

  1. 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]

  2. [also: haughtiest, haughtier]

Usage examples of "haughty".

Seregil asked in a haughty, slightly nasal voice, giving Alec an elaborate bow.

I have an instinctive aversion to those cold, haughty, drawing-back characters, who are made up of the egotism of looking out for something that is wholly devoted to them, and that has not a breath to breathe that is not a sigh for their perfections.

Mistress Belding, with a haughty look at her unaccommodating neighbour.

He belonged entirely to those pale haughty women to one of whom he had bequeathed his tight-lipped mouth.

Let the haughty, purse-proud American--in whose warm life current one may trace the unmistakable strains of bichloride of gold and trichinae--pause for one moment to gaze at the coarse features and bloodshot eyes of his ancestors, who sat up at nights drenching their souls in a style of nepenthe that it is said would remove moths, tan, freckles, and political disabilities.

When I got home, as I reflected on the character of this strange cardinal--a wit, haughty, vain, and boastful, I resolved to make him a fine present.

At the barrier the Sagoths clambered up the steep side with truly apelike agility, while behind them the haughty queen rose upon her wings with her two frightful dragons close beside her, and settled down upon the largest bowlder of them all in the exact center of that side of the amphitheater which is reserved for the dominant race.

She remembered that some of the other hens at the fair had been haughty and proud and had smoothed their feathers, declaring boldly that they expected to win the first prize.

Wikkell could see how it might have been so: this Deek was a pleasant enough sort, much better company than a haughty bat or a jibbering moron of a White, and certainly much, much nicer than the human wizard, with his noxious spells and offhand death-dealing.

The haughty Baron seized greedily this circumstance, as the means of succeeding in his ambitious designs, and determined to humble the pride and insolence of the superiors, since the land belonged originally to his ancestors, and was transmitted to himself with powers to exact homage and fee from the heads of the monastery for this only part of their dependance on laical jurisdiction.

Her uncovered face shone like alabaster, her lanceolate eyes had a life of their own under the enormous chandeliers of the central nave, and as she walked she was so erect, so haughty, so self-possessed, that she seemed no older than her son.

By now Antony Bek had sent a monk with armed escort to deliver a haughty message demanding the surrender of Raymond Lully into his custody.

The unprovoked rebellion with which the Romans rewarded his services, exasperated his haughty spirit.

And she held her head and her nose up in a very disagreeable and haughty way, and said as I left, that she never could bear to help spleeny people.

Awake and have a care, Ye proud and haughty spurners of the wretches in the rear.