hauteur
Example Sentences
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Anna, her hauteur hardening like a protective shell, is aghast.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026
Displaying as always her couture hauteur, Miranda, who doesn’t even remember Andy from her long-ago gig, tosses the former assistant in a terrible office and tells her she will inevitably fail.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
“Whatever nomenclature you prefer,” Elizabeth offers, accentuating her speech with oozing hauteur.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024
Nearly all his paintings are the height of Mannerist distortion and unbalanced elegance, androgynous sensuality, with an astonishingly consistent perfection of hauteur and surface.
From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2021
Some critics have even drawn parallels between McCandless and the Arctic’s most infamous tragic figure, Sir John Franklin, a nineteenth-century British naval officer whose smugness and hauteur contributed to some 140 deaths, including his own.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing hauteur
The Great Gatsby
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