All 7 Uses

haughty
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The Adventures of Augie March
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The spirit I found him in was the Chanticleer spirit, by which I refer to male piercingness, sharpness, knotted hard muscle and blood in the comb, jerky, flaunty, haughty and bright, with luxurious slither of feathers.†
Chpt 9 *

haughty = arrogant
But he wasn't silent any more, and his old reserve was gone to pieces; he was boisterous, capricious, haughty, critical, arbitrary, mimicking and deviling, and he crowed, croaked, made faces and had the table all but spinning in this dining room of stable and upright wealth.†
Chpt 11
Very handsome, he looked like Ramon Novarro of the movies, both soft and haughty, and was said to be a mining engineer by profession; that was never proved but he had no need of work, his father was rich, and Talavera was a sportsman.†
Chpt 16
However, something haughty kept me.†
Chpt 21
He was in quite a mood, and he walked me round the schoolyard several times, being extremely kind in his haughty way and quoting various poems in his tense tenor voice.†
Chpt 22
As we lay in bed kissing, whispering, and loving all weekend long, the air was strong and blue outside, the sun was splendid and sailed around handsome and haughty.†
Chpt 23
She was dignified, if not haughty; I felt her conduct like a kind of touching athletic prowess.†
Chpt 24

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