All 4 Uses of
haughty
in
Babbitt
- …man given to cigarettes and the playing of pool; old Mat Penniman, general utility man, collector of rents and salesman of insurance—broken, silent, gray; a mystery, reputed to have been a "crack" real-estate man with a firm of his own in haughty Brooklyn; Chester Kirby Laylock, resident salesman out at the Glen Oriole acreage development—an enthusiastic person with a silky mustache and much family; Miss Theresa McGoun, the swift and rather pretty stenographer; Miss Wilberta Bannigan,…†
Chpt 3
- At the door he left her, in self-approving haughtiness, and tramped the lawn.†
Chpt 10 *
- He was baronial; he was a peer in the rapidly crystallizing American aristocracy, inferior only to the haughty Old Families.†
Chpt 15
- She was pony-built and plump, with the face of a haughty Pekingese, a button of a nose, and arms so short that, despite her most indignant endeavors, she could not clasp her hands in front of her as she sat on the platform waiting.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(haughty) arrogant or condescending (acting superior or self-important)