All 9 Uses of
haughty
in
The Good Earth
- And as he passed Wang Lung each driver gave him a scornful and haughty look, and no prince could have looked more haughty than these drivers in their rough work coats as they passed by the small group of persons, standing wondering at the edge of the roadway.†
Chpt 11 *
- And as he passed Wang Lung each driver gave him a scornful and haughty look, and no prince could have looked more haughty than these drivers in their rough work coats as they passed by the small group of persons, standing wondering at the edge of the roadway.†
Chpt 11
- Moreover, it was a shame to him when he was in a grain shop where grain was bought and sold again, that when a contract was written for so much and for so much of wheat or rice, he must say humbly to the haughty dealers in the town, "Sir, and will you read it for me, for I am too stupid."†
Chpt 17
- And O-lan said, "I bore her haughty looks all during my youth in the great house and her running into the kitchen a score of times a day and crying out 'now tea for the lord'—'now food for the lord'—and it was always this is too hot and that is too cold, and that is badly cooked, and I was too ugly and too slow and too this and too that …."†
Chpt 21
- He did not want a rich daughter-in-law lest she be haughty and disobedient and cry for this and that of food and clothes and turn aside his son's heart from his parents.†
Chpt 25
- Now these three saw well enough that Wang Lung was afraid of them and they grew haughty and demanded this and that and complained of what they ate and drank.†
Chpt 27
- "Well, and it is dearer than jade to have them at us like this," the young man argued, "and to endure besides their haughtiness and the young man peeping at my wife."†
Chpt 27
- And the wife of the eldest son was correct and haughty and bowed only the least that could be considered proper for her position.†
Chpt 30
- The wife of the elder son lifted her head haughtily when she passed her sister-in-law and she said aloud one day to her husband as she passed, "It is a heavy thing to have a woman bold and ill-bred in the family, so that a man may call her red meat and she laughs in his face."†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(haughty) arrogant or condescending (acting superior or self-important)