All 7 Uses of
haughty
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The haughty air of the Flemish hosier, by humiliating the courtiers, had touched in all these plebeian souls that latent sentiment of dignity still vague and indistinct in the fifteenth century.†
Chpt 1.1.4 *haughty = arrogant
- Then, while Guillaume Rym, a "sage and malicious man," as Philippe de Comines puts it, watched them both with a smile of raillery and superiority, each sought his place, the cardinal quite abashed and troubled, Coppenole tranquil and haughty, and thinking, no doubt, that his title of hosier was as good as any other, after all, and that Marie of Burgundy, mother to that Marguerite whom Coppenole was to-day bestowing in marriage, would have been less afraid of the cardinal than of the hosier; for it is not a cardinal who would have stirred up a revolt among the men of Ghent against th†
Chpt 1.1.4
- He recalled the violent scene which he had just witnessed in part; that the gypsy was struggling with two men, that Quasimodo had a companion; and the morose and haughty face of the archdeacon passed confusedly through his memory.†
Chpt 1.2.5
- In the midst of this Round Table of beggary, Clopin Trouillefou,—as the doge of this senate, as the king of this peerage, as the pope of this conclave,— dominated; first by virtue of the height of his hogshead, and next by virtue of an indescribable, haughty, fierce, and formidable air, which caused his eyes to flash, and corrected in his savage profile the bestial type of the race of vagabonds.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- Sarcasms rained down upon the gypsy, and haughty condescension and malevolent looks.†
Chpt 2.7.1
- As he spoke thus, Master Olivier's haughty face quitted its arrogant expression for a lowly one.†
Chpt 2.10.5
- He now had a gentle and plaintive accent which contrasted sadly with the haughty harshness of his features.†
Chpt 2.11.1
Definition:
arrogant or condescending (acting superior or self-important)