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Definition
arrogant or condescending (acting superior or self-important)
- Our young lady returned to us saucier and more passionate, and haughtier than ever.Chapter 9 (91% in)
- I began to doubt whether he were a servant or not: his dress and speech were both rude, entirely devoid of the superiority observable in Mr. and Mrs. Heathcliff; his thick brown curls were rough and uncultivated, his whiskers encroached bearishly over his cheeks, and his hands were embrowned like those of a common labourer: still his bearing was free, almost haughty, and he showed none of a domestic's assiduity in attending on the lady of the house.Chapter 2 (31% in)
- At fifteen she was the queen of the country-side; she had no peer; and she did turn out a haughty, headstrong creature!Chapter 8 (28% in)
- She thinks Catherine haughty, and does not like her, I can guess by her talk.Chapter 30 (3% in)
- The present Catherine has no other likeness to her, except a breadth of forehead, and a certain arch of the nostril that makes her appear rather haughty, whether she will or not.Chapter 33 (65% in)
There are no more uses of "haughty" in Wuthering Heights.
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