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Definition
arrogant or condescending (acting superior or self-important)
- Your guardian was not at that time in Miss Havisham's counsels, and she was too haughty and too much in love to be advised by any one.Chapter 22 (46% in)
- That girl's hard and haughty and capricious to the last degree, and has been brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex."Chapter 22 (7% in)
- "Naturally," said I. "And necessarily," she added, in a haughty tone; "what was fit company for you once, would be quite unfit company for you now."Chapter 29 (42% in)
There are no more uses of "haughty" in Great Expectations.
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