All 3 Uses of
haughty
in
The Age of Innocence
- Unkind people said that, like her Imperial namesake, she had won her way to success by strength of will and hardness of heart, and a kind of haughty effrontery that was somehow justified by the extreme decency and dignity of her private life.†
Chpt 2 *haughty = arrogant
- I know my Ellen—haughty, intractable; shall I say, just a shade unforgiving?†
Chpt 17
- Archer too would have preferred to escape their friends' hospitality: in conformity with the family tradition he had always travelled as a sight-seer and looker-on, affecting a haughty unconsciousness of the presence of his fellow-beings.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
arrogant or condescending (acting superior or self-important)