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synonyms for haughty
- cavalier
- contemptuous
- imperious
- indifferent
- snobbish
- snooty
- assuming
- conceited
- detached
- disdainful
- distant
- egotistic
- egotistical
- high
- high-and-mighty
- hoity-toity
- lofty
- on high horse
- overbearing
- overweening
- proud
- reserved
- scornful
- sniffy
- snotty
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- superior
- uppity
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How to use haughty in a sentence
When the bankrupt Gawker shut its doors in 2016, it seemed unlikely that the site known for snarky opinions, celebrity gossip and haughty critiques would return.
‘It’s not going to be nice’: Leah Finnegan is rebuilding Gawker with her editorial vision front and center | Kayleigh Barber | September 28, 2021 | DigidayEven curbside, the haughty look of this ride is intimidating.
While he puts a good deal of blame on the former president, who, he writes, “could come off as lecturing and haughty,” Boehner also recognizes that he was often not in the best negotiating position.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Why the World’s Armies Don’t Want U.S. Tech Anymore | Bill Sweetman | July 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut haughty talk may not dissuade Italians from following their former leader.
But these are not times when we need to be uplifted and showered with haughty rhetoric.
They have to rebut his lies, and they have to do it without sounding bitter or afraid or superior or haughty.
Michael Tomasky on Paul Ryan’s Convention Speech and His Web of Lies | Michael Tomasky | August 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd not the least haughty or intimidating or acerbic, but helpful, constructive, and conscientious.
Putting Words in Gore Vidal’s Mouth—a Copywriter Recalls the 1982 Senate Campaign | Robert Chandler | August 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut at the instant I caught a sight of my counterfeit presentment in a shop window, and veiled my haughty crest.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordA flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
The Red Year | Louis TracyUnder the long lashes of low lids a pair of eyes black and insolent set off the haughty lines of her scarlet lips.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniHe passed them by, and haughty tenor and swaggering basso again took heart of grace.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeThis haughty Countess, by the way, has always had a great fascination for me, because she looks like a woman who "has a history."
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