How to Use haughty in a Sentence

haughty

adjective
Definition of haughtynext
Synonyms for haughtynext
  • He rejected their offer with a tone of haughty disdain.
  • For starters, there's not a headband or haughty set of pearls in sight.
    — Molly Fahner, Cosmopolitan, 6 May 2009
  • These ghosts are sexy, rude, naughty, haughty and shocking.
    — Angela Ledgerwood, Esquire, 5 June 2017
  • Hoel wore her silvery-gray hair in a tight bun that revealed a haughty face.
    — Amos Zeeberg (discover Web Editor), Discover Magazine, 15 July 2010
  • No culture is too haughty for a sight gag or too elitist for a pun.
    — Michelle Cohn, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Her Beatrice is rich, spoiled and haughty, but has a weird love for Burt (heightened by his scars in a weird kink).
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Who knew that the haughty Madame Dumont was really named Daisy?
    — Jeanine Basinger, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Where, wondered the haughty Britons, were the other 12 ministers?
    — Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • Min-ah’s haughty mother-in-law abuses her and Min-ah’s weasel of a husband cheats on her.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • One can argue that Golden State is too cool, too haughty and too damn good.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 9 June 2018
  • The haughty old taboo against clapping between movements is long gone.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Many years later, haughty Thebes refused to submit to Alexander the Great.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Still, a puzzle lurks within that mood of public glee at seeing the haughty-but-dirty brought low.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2020
  • The landlord is a haughty, ill-humored owl who demands payment in moths.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
  • But pride goes before destruction, says the book of Proverbs, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2021
  • And while talk of national championships may sound silly and even haughty at the moment, the school had to find a place to start.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Centaurs, even the haughtiest ones, are fine with her riding them.
    — Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, 12 Feb. 2014
  • Based loosely on Pride and Prejudice, Bridget falls in love with the wrong man while the haughty right man is just under her nose.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The haughty Fabienne isn't the same person as the woman who plays her, but make no mistake — nobody else could play her.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 3 July 2020
  • This is just one of the vignettes that Ms. Glenconner offers about the haughty, aloof culture into which she was born.
    — Alexandra Wolfe, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Verlander enjoyed the trappings of stardom, and could come across as haughty.
    — Shawn Windsor, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
  • As for Parisians, across the rest of the country they are considered haughty and entitled, and also wimpy drivers.
    — Scott Sayare, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2015
  • William’s wife, Kate, now the Princess of Wales, is haughty and cool, brushing off Meghan’s homeopathic remedies.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
  • On Regent Street: hats off to the window dresser for Guess, who had accessorized the store’s haughty mannequins with a pair of fake corgis.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 4 June 2022
  • His resume is jam-packed with awards and accolades, yet there’s no haughty air in Southern’s demeanor that would give that away.
    — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Lasting friendships were made with, among others, Billy Zane, who played the film’s villain, haughty Cal.
    — Donald Liebenson, HWD, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Pride Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 11 May 2018
  • The haughty implication is that those on public assistance don’t want to work.
    — Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
  • For all her brilliance, Didion might now be deemed too haughty to tolerate, the ultimate white girl.
    — Meghan Daum, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2015
  • All this special treatment hasn't made Nevada brothel girls haughty -- no way!
    — Stacey Grenrock Woods, Esquire, 1 July 2008

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