hauteur
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“Whatever nomenclature you prefer,” Elizabeth offers, accentuating her speech with oozing hauteur.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024
As a character, Miss Liza Jane combines the hauteur of opera diva Jessye Norman and the sermonizing wisdom of Maya Angelou.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023
His critics often observed that he might have come much closer to his stated goals had he not expressed and pursued them with such ferocity and impatience, or treated his critics with such hauteur.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023
The wives show up now and again in “The Woman King,” seated and standing in a cloud of regal hauteur.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022
Sliding, she charged by, talking to some other Charm Bracelet, both of them moving with that lazy, confident hauteur they all had.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing hauteur
The Great Gatsby
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "H"
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Pride and Prejudice
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