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hauty

hauty is the obsolete spelling of haughty.

Meaning of haughty

Adjective

haughty (comparative haughtier, superlative haughtiest)

  1. Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
    • How meek and shrunken did that haughty Tarmac become as it slunk by the wide circle of asphalt of the yellow sort, that was loosely strewn before the great iron gates of Lady Hall as a forerunner of the consideration that awaited the guests of Rupert, Earl of Kare, […].1922, Michael Arlen, “3/1/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days

Forms of hauty

comparativemore hauty
superlativemost hauty

Questions about hauty

What is hauty the obsolete spelling of?
Hauty is the obsolete spelling of haughty.

Words near hauty in the dictionary

  1. hautie
  2. hautpas
  3. hauts
  4. Hauts-de-France
  5. Hauts-de-Seine
  6. hauty
  7. Hauxley
  8. Hauxton
  9. hauyne
  10. hauynes
  11. hauynite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hauty (page history and authors); haughty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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