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Definition of haughtiness in English: haughtinessnoun ˈhɔːtɪnəsˈhɔdinəs mass nounThe appearance or quality of being arrogantly superior and disdainful. Example sentencesExamples - She sails into the waves flanked by arrogance, haughtiness and false power.
- His crushing critiques, if not born of arrogance, have at times been delivered with a haughtiness that practically swaggers across the page or the airwaves.
- There's something so extraordinary about the pride, the haughtiness, the explicit sensuality of flamenco which is so unBritish.
- ‘Serves you right,’ Leigh said, with mock haughtiness.
- They perceive haughtiness, arrogance and all sorts of faults in people who are really totally indistinguishable from themselves.
Synonyms arrogance, pride, conceit, hubris, self-importance, egotism, sense of superiority, pomposity, high-handedness, swagger, boasting, bumptiousness, bluster, condescension, disdain, contempt, imperiousness vanity, immodesty loftiness, lordliness, snobbishness, snobbery, superciliousness, smugness pretension, pretentiousness, affectation scorn, mocking, sneering, scoffing informal snootiness, uppitiness, big-headedness
Definition of haughtiness in US English: haughtinessnounˈhɔdinəsˈhôdēnəs The appearance or quality of being arrogantly superior and disdainful. Example sentencesExamples - His crushing critiques, if not born of arrogance, have at times been delivered with a haughtiness that practically swaggers across the page or the airwaves.
- ‘Serves you right,’ Leigh said, with mock haughtiness.
- She sails into the waves flanked by arrogance, haughtiness and false power.
- There's something so extraordinary about the pride, the haughtiness, the explicit sensuality of flamenco which is so unBritish.
- They perceive haughtiness, arrogance and all sorts of faults in people who are really totally indistinguishable from themselves.
Synonyms arrogance, pride, conceit, hubris, self-importance, egotism, sense of superiority, pomposity, high-handedness, swagger, boasting, bumptiousness, bluster, condescension, disdain, contempt, imperiousness
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