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adjective

Haughty adj. (compar. haughtier; superl. haughtiest)

High; lofty; bold. (Obs. or Archaic) "To measure the most haughty mountain's height." "Equal unto this haughty enterprise."

Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. "A woman of a haughty and imperious nature."

Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage. "Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering."

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Etymology of 'Haughty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Haughty" Quotes from Famous Books

... come again to Piskaret, of the Adirondacks, whose home was upon that large island of Allumette, governed by the haughty Algonkin chief Le ...

— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin

... haughty up-setting crew, and the queue-haired rover the worst of the lot!" said the Paymaster, still red and angry. "What I say's true, Brooks; it's true I tell you! You'll not for your life put it out of the boy's head when you have the teaching of him; he must ...

— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro

... among the many there may be some who for a moment will turn aside from tales of haughty Heroes, ruffling it in Court and Camp, to listen to the story of a very ordinary lad who lived with very ordinary folk in a modern London street, and who grew up to be a very ordinary sort of man, loving a little and grieving ...

— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

... this company assist me with the power you possess (and that power is ample) to compel your haughty nephew to repair the injury, which, in a humbler character, ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 • Samuel James Arnold

... morning, years back, which had hailed his initial appearance with the mail bags slung over one thin shoulder, he had made the most of that daily entrance upon the stage of publicity. There was always a haughty aloofness in his eyes that killed any word of greeting upon the lips of these same beholders with whom, a few hours later, he was to sit and wrangle in bitterest intimacy; a certain brisk importance of step which was a palpable rebuke to ...

— Once to Every Man • Larry Evans

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