haughty
Example Sentences
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Her haughty line deliveries and imperious bone structure cut through the screen like a knife.
From Los Angeles Times
The cruelest, the proudest, the most superior and haughty.
From Literature
Her one condition, delivered in the haughty tone of an offended aristocrat, was that they sign a note guaranteeing repayment for the damage.
Penelope had met the haughty baroness on several occasions, and each time she had disliked her more than the last—a trend, she feared, that was about to continue.
From Literature
In Ava Pickett's fresh adaptation, being staged at London's Rose Theatre, Emma Woodhouse still has all the trademark traits of our beloved original heroine – she's clever, quick-witted, meddling, haughty and occasionally cruel.
From BBC
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