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outhaughty

outhaughty verb: to be more haughty than.

Verb

outhaughty (third-person singular simple present outhaughties, present participle outhaughtying, simple past and past participle outhaughtied)

  1. To be more haughty than.
    • The overcast had cleared and they were fifteen hundred feet up, with the blue-white peaks of the Quilak Mountains at their backs, stretching southeast to northwest, uncompromisingly beautiful and, Kate was pleased to see, effortlessly outhaughtying the Bakers.1997, Dana Stabenow, Breakup, →ISBN, page 54
    • If this Sidhe, this so-called cousin, thought he could outhaughty me, intimidate me, he was sadly mistaken.2009, Maria Lima, Blood Bargain, →ISBN

Examples of outhaughty in a sentence

  • No one can outhaughty a cat, especially a sleek, shorthaired killer.2011, Maria Schneider, Executive Sick Days:
  • One of my sources said it was fun and games to watch a haughty call girl outhaughty and upstage an unknowing Park Avenue hostess at whose home she was a guest.2012, Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Office, →ISBN:

Forms of outhaughty

third-person singular presentouthaughties
present participleouthaughtying
past participleouthaughtied
pastouthaughtied

Origin of outhaughty

From out- + haughty.

Questions about outhaughty

What does outhaughty mean?
Outhaughty means to be more haughty than.
How do you use outhaughty in a sentence?
No one can outhaughty a cat, especially a sleek, shorthaired killer.
What part of speech is outhaughty?
Outhaughty is a verb.
What is the past tense of outhaughty?
The past tense of outhaughty is outhaughtied.

Words near outhaughty in the dictionary

  1. outhastened
  2. outhastening
  3. outhastens
  4. outhaughtied
  5. outhaughties
  6. outhaughty
  7. outhaughtying
  8. outhaul
  9. outhauled
  10. outhauler
  11. outhaulers

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