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• The beggar asked for change, but the haughty woman only looked at him askance.From the entry askance
• "Now you may have the traditional cramp-rings," Anne said, in that same high-pitched, haughty voice.2011, Margaret George, The Autobiography of Henry VIII, page 357. From the entry cramp ring
• They were always a haughty family, stand-offish in a way, as they've a right to be.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter VII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 96. From the entry standoffish
• It’s so strong that sometimes I do have a tiny effect on the haughty ten-thousandaires.1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter V, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section V…. From the entry ten-thousandaire
• “Needs must,” and the haughty summons of Britain rings even in the impregnable heart of Thibet.1905, The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, page 199. From the entry needs must
• Had not the haughty, eccentric Don John, his handsome, merry joculatrix, attached to his princely household?1903, Frederic Stewart Isham, Under the Rose. From the entry joculatrix
• His demeanour was haughty and icy towards her.2009, Sharon Kendrick, The Desert Princes Bundle: The Sheikh's English Bride. From the entry icy
• Boris choreographed a tale about a haughty contessa who tries to seduce a young man with wondrous perfumes.2007 January 8, Jack Anderson, “Ruthanna Boris, Versatile Ballet Russe Dancer, Dies at 88”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry contessa
• Each time, Helga's vulnerable and defensively haughty self approaches a potential mirror and is, or perceives itself to be, mismirrored.1997, Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen, Female Subjects in Black and White, page 258. From the entry mismirror
• The classic modern android was the high-fashion model of the Fifties to Seventies, with her haughty masklike face.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry masklike
• She’s a troublemaker from way back, got fancy ideas an’ haughty ways—we’re mighty glad to have you all.”1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry church
• The second, Madame Louise (Anjelica Huston in her grifter mode), is a haughty, witchlike peddler in a horse-drawn carriage, hawking an alcoholic cure-all.2007 January 26, Stephen Holden, “Once Upon a Time in a Very Familiar West”, in New York Times. From the entry witchlike
• The morning shadow on his chin was almost as navy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face.2006, Carol Marinelli, Taken for His Pleasure, page 26. From the entry navy
• The haughty foreign secretary, to whom for the next fifty years all stories of aristocratic pachydermy were attached, was still to come.1972, Wayland Kennet, Preservation, page 35. From the entry pachydermy
• Luckily, the king was being portrayed in “Queenist” caricatures as a haughty and lustful fop bursting out of waistcoats and breeches with his current mistress fawning at his feet.2020, May McGoldrick, Highland Sword. From the entry Queenist
• Their image as Revolutionary leaders faded, and, for all their aristocratic trappings, they were simply remembered as haughty people who had once made a lot of money from fish.1997, Mark Kurlansky, “Chapter 6: A Cod War Heard 'Round the World”, in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Walker, →ISBN. From the entry codfish aristocracy
• Taking advantage of her haughty obliviousness—Faris is every bit Margaret Dumont to Baron Cohen’s Groucho—Aladeen conspires to seize power back and tear up the new constitution before it’s too late.2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry tear up

Meaning of haughty

1. adjective Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.

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How do you use haughty in a sentence?

Haughty is used as an adjective. For example: “The beggar asked for change, but the haughty woman only looked at him askance.”

What is a short sentence with haughty?

“His demeanour was haughty and icy towards her.”

What does haughty mean?

Haughty means conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.