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Definition of haughty in English: haughtyadjectivehaughtier, haughtiest ˈhɔːtiˈhɔdi Arrogantly superior and disdainful. 傲慢的，盛气凌人的 a look of haughty disdain 傲慢轻蔑的表情。 a haughty British aristocrat 一傲慢的英国贵族人士。 Example sentencesExamples - At the risk of sounding haughty, I would say that the art is mediocre.
- He stoops to sign in, then turns to the friend with an expression of haughty disdain.
- He would be stuck up, haughty and stubborn most likely, but she knew that he was in her immediate future.
- Portia sat at the row behind them, filing her nails and looking imperiously haughty.
- Cyclists feel aggrieved that they run the gauntlet of motorised traffic, which they also regard with haughty contempt.
- After he finishes something he imagines particularly clever, he ends up looking smug and haughty.
- She looked down at him, a haughty and imperious expression on her little face.
- Her demeanor was proud and haughty, and her stance bespoke power and determination.
- One has a look of perplexed surprise; the other, a haughty indifference.
- They became haughty and arrogant, and began to love the art of subterfuge and deception, as well as politics and law.
- When she first meets people Penny is conceited and haughty.
- He walks with a quick sure gait and the self-confidence of a haughty personage.
- Some feigned smiles, others looked away with haughty contempt.
- She was unlike most nobles he had met; even as beautiful as she was, she was not haughty and vain.
- Guys showing off their bulging biceps, big sideburns and carrying a haughty look are out.
- He was haughty, erratic, self-obsessed and his violin-playing was atrocious.
- Scientists will have to step out of their laboratories and humanists will have to give up their haughty disdain for modernity.
- Towards the other wives and their children she was always extremely imperious, haughty and pretentious.
- In reality, Fawzia was more shy than cold, and she certainly wasn't arrogant or haughty.
- They grew haughty in their scorn, vain of their beauty, proud of their long life.
Synonyms proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself, above oneself informal snooty, sniffy, hoity-toity, uppity, uppish, cocky, big-headed, swollen-headed, puffed up, high and mighty, la-di-da, fancy-pants, on one's high horse, too big for one's boots British informal toffee-nosed North American informal chesty informal, dated too big for one's breeches literary vainglorious
Derivativesadverb ˈhɔːtɪli When quite modest health care reforms were introduced by New Labour in England, Scottish Labour was haughtily dismissive of them. Example sentencesExamples - She looked haughtily at me for a second and turned away, resuming her conversation.
- Waiters with tables to fill are heartily welcoming instead of haughtily aloof.
- The woman wearing said fake fur turned around quickly, shot Mom a deadly look, and then haughtily turned back around and ignored her.
- Louise came in, saw us, said, ‘Excuse me,’ very haughtily, and marched out.
OriginMid 16th century: extended form of obsolete haught, earlier haut, from Old French, from Latin altus 'high'. altitude from Late Middle English: Altitude is from Latin altitudo, from altus ‘high’. The latter is also the source of altar (Old English), a raised structure for worship, enhance (Middle English), originally ‘make higher’; exalt (Late Middle English), with ex- ‘out, upwards’; and haughty (mid 16th century), from altus via French haut.
Rhymesforty, naughty, pianoforte, rorty, shorty, sortie, sporty, UB40, warty Definition of haughty in US English: haughtyadjectiveˈhɔdiˈhôdē Arrogantly superior and disdainful. 傲慢的，盛气凌人的 a look of haughty disdain 傲慢轻蔑的表情。 一傲慢的英国贵族人士。 Example sentencesExamples - He would be stuck up, haughty and stubborn most likely, but she knew that he was in her immediate future.
- He stoops to sign in, then turns to the friend with an expression of haughty disdain.
- He was haughty, erratic, self-obsessed and his violin-playing was atrocious.
- Cyclists feel aggrieved that they run the gauntlet of motorised traffic, which they also regard with haughty contempt.
- Guys showing off their bulging biceps, big sideburns and carrying a haughty look are out.
- They grew haughty in their scorn, vain of their beauty, proud of their long life.
- She looked down at him, a haughty and imperious expression on her little face.
- He walks with a quick sure gait and the self-confidence of a haughty personage.
- She was unlike most nobles he had met; even as beautiful as she was, she was not haughty and vain.
- When she first meets people Penny is conceited and haughty.
- Some feigned smiles, others looked away with haughty contempt.
- Towards the other wives and their children she was always extremely imperious, haughty and pretentious.
- At the risk of sounding haughty, I would say that the art is mediocre.
- Scientists will have to step out of their laboratories and humanists will have to give up their haughty disdain for modernity.
- In reality, Fawzia was more shy than cold, and she certainly wasn't arrogant or haughty.
- One has a look of perplexed surprise; the other, a haughty indifference.
- After he finishes something he imagines particularly clever, he ends up looking smug and haughty.
- They became haughty and arrogant, and began to love the art of subterfuge and deception, as well as politics and law.
- Her demeanor was proud and haughty, and her stance bespoke power and determination.
- Portia sat at the row behind them, filing her nails and looking imperiously haughty.
Synonyms proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself, above oneself
OriginMid 16th century: extended form of obsolete haught, earlier haut, from Old French, from Latin altus ‘high’. |