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Haughty

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Adjective

1. disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering

having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

Example Sentences:
'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'
'a more swaggering mood than usual'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Haughty

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adjective -tier or -tiest
1. 
having or showing arrogance
2. archaic
noble or exalted

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Haughty

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈhaughtier or ˈhaughtiest
1. 
having or showing great pride in oneself and disdain, contempt, or scorn for others; proud; arrogant; supercilious
2.  Archaic
lofty; noble

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Haughty

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adj. haugh·ti·er, haugh·ti·est
Scornfully and condescendingly proud. See Synonyms at arrogant.

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