All 10 Uses of

haughty
in
John Adams, by McCullough

He felt privileged, blessed in his profession, he told Jonathan Sewall: Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress to wrongs, the advancement of right, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue, to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice?†
Subsection 1.1.2

haughty = arrogant

She told him he was too severe in his judgments of people and that to others often appeared haughty.†
Subsection 1.1.2

He passed haughtily by......But I was determined to make my bow, that I might know his temper.†
Subsection 1.2.2 *

haughtily = condescendingly (in a superior or self-important way)

In short, stern and haughty republican that I am, I cannot help loving these people for their earnest desire and assiduity to please......The richness, the magnificence, and splendor is beyond all description.†
Subsection 2.4.3

haughty = arrogant

Born to wealth and position in New York, tall, slim, and pale, he appeared somewhat haughty, carrying himself with a lift of the chin that made his hawk nose an even more pronounced feature.†
Subsection 2.5.3

She has stateliness in her manners which some misconstrue into pride and a haughtiness, but which rather results from too great reserve; she wants more affability, but she has prudence and discretion beyond her years.†
Subsection 2.6.1

haughtiness = arrogance or condescension (acting superior or self-important)

Among the few other passengers, as Abigail recorded, were a Colonel Norton from Martha's Vineyard, a Dr. Clark, a Mr. Foster, a Mr. Spear, a "haughty Scotchman" named Green, and one other woman whose name happened also to be Adams.†
Subsection 2.6.1

haughty = arrogant

There was only one of the group whom they would all have been happy to do without, the "haughty Scotchman," Mr. Green, who harped incessantly on the importance of rank and social position and who himself, Abigail concluded, had neither.†
Subsection 2.6.1

It was not titles that gave men preeminence in America, she had lectured the "haughty Scotchman" on her voyage to England and to the solid approval of her shipmates.†
Subsection 3.8.2

He is polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity, modest, wise, and good.†
Subsection 3.8.2

haughtiness = arrogance or condescension (acting superior or self-important)

Definition:

arrogant or condescending (acting superior or self-important)