The Only Use of
haughty
in
Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
- I remembered a certain unconscious air of pallid--how shall I call it?--of pallid haughtiness, say, or rather an austere reserve about him, which had positively awed me into my tame compliance with his eccentricities,
haughtiness = arrogance or condescension
Definition:
arrogant or condescending (acting superior or self-important)