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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Haughty" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the walls of Bruges and demanded entrance the magistrates agreed to open the gates, on condition that he brought with him only 300 men-at-arms. But he broke his word, and the town was entered by 2,000 knights, whose haughty looks and threatening language convinced the people that treachery was intended. It was whispered in the Market-Place that the waggons which rumbled over the drawbridges carried ropes with which the Clauwerts who had remained in the town were to be hanged; that there was to ...

— Bruges and West Flanders • George W. T. Omond

... buckle, he went up to Happy Jack and thrust that horrible grin into Happy's very face. "By cripes, you forgive Jakie, and you do it quick!" he thundered. "Think you're going to ball up the eating uh the whole outfit whilst you stand around acting haughty? Why, by cripes, I've killed men in the Coconino County for half what you're doing! You'll wish, by cripes, that Jakie had slit your hide; you'll consider that woulda been an easy way out, before I git half through with yuh. You walk right up ...

— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower

... she enjoys happiness; and I should much wish to know if there be any Hatred in the world so dreadful as that curdled love, as that reverence decayed, as that obedience in ruins, you see in a proud haughty daughter married against her will to one she holds in loathing, and who points her finger, and says within herself, "My father and mother made me marry that man, and ...

— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 • George Augustus Sala

... haughty because of thy knowledge. Converse with the ignorant man as well as with him that ...

— The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians • E. A. Wallis Budge

... child Behind whose eyes the fairies live. . . . And see, The people on the street look up at us All envious. We are a king and queen, Our royal carriage is a motor bus, We watch our subjects with a haughty joy. . . . How still you are! Have you been hard at work And are you tired to-night? It is so long Since I have seen you—four whole days, I think. My heart is crowded full of foolish thoughts Like early flowers ...

— Love Songs • Sara Teasdale

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