Sample Sentences for
haughty
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    This haughty prince didn't have the sense of a gnat.  (source)
    haughty = arrogant (rude and stuck-up, like someone who looks down on others)
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    To his surprise, Professor Trelawney drew herself up at this suggestion, looking haughty.  (source)
    haughty = arrogant
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    Her long dark hair swept over one shoulder, and her face was gorgeous in that surreal super-model way—thin and haughty and cold, not quite human.  (source)
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    ...and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side,  (source)
    haughty = condescending (acting superior or self-important)
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    "A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself?"  (source)
    haughtily = condescendingly (in a superior or self-important way)
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    Among the Japanese at Omori, Watanabe was despised for his haughtiness, his boasts about his wealth, and his curtness.  (source)
    haughtiness = arrogance or condescension (acting superior or self-important)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Dussel replied in his haughtiest tone, "Ich mach' das schon!"†  (source)
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    Just at first I fancied it was my Lily's voice-something like hers, it was-but haughtier if you know what I mean-sort of high up in the air.†  (source)
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    Yet every dim little star revolving about her, from her maid to the manager of the Italian Opera, knows her weaknesses, prejudices, follies, haughtinesses, and caprices and lives upon as accurate a calculation and as nice a measure of her moral nature as her dressmaker takes of her physical proportions.†  (source)
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    Thorin indeed was very haughty,  (source)
    haughty = arrogant
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    "I'm very much obliged to you," she said haughtily as she turned away.  (source)
    haughtily = condescendingly (in a superior or self-important way)
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    Her clear almond eyes and her inborn haughtiness were all that were left to her from her wedding portrait,  (source)
    haughtiness = arrogance or condescension (acting superior or self-important)
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    He spoke in his haughtiest manner, rising to his feet as he did so.†  (source)
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