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词汇 haughty
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Definition of haughty in English:

haughty

adjectivehaughtier, haughtiest ˈhɔːtiˈhɔdi
  • Arrogantly superior and disdainful.

    傲慢的,盛气凌人的

    a look of haughty disdain

    傲慢轻蔑的表情。

    a haughty British aristocrat

    一傲慢的英国贵族人士。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the risk of sounding haughty, I would say that the art is mediocre.
    • He stoops to sign in, then turns to the friend with an expression of haughty disdain.
    • He would be stuck up, haughty and stubborn most likely, but she knew that he was in her immediate future.
    • Portia sat at the row behind them, filing her nails and looking imperiously haughty.
    • Cyclists feel aggrieved that they run the gauntlet of motorised traffic, which they also regard with haughty contempt.
    • After he finishes something he imagines particularly clever, he ends up looking smug and haughty.
    • She looked down at him, a haughty and imperious expression on her little face.
    • Her demeanor was proud and haughty, and her stance bespoke power and determination.
    • One has a look of perplexed surprise; the other, a haughty indifference.
    • They became haughty and arrogant, and began to love the art of subterfuge and deception, as well as politics and law.
    • When she first meets people Penny is conceited and haughty.
    • He walks with a quick sure gait and the self-confidence of a haughty personage.
    • Some feigned smiles, others looked away with haughty contempt.
    • She was unlike most nobles he had met; even as beautiful as she was, she was not haughty and vain.
    • Guys showing off their bulging biceps, big sideburns and carrying a haughty look are out.
    • He was haughty, erratic, self-obsessed and his violin-playing was atrocious.
    • Scientists will have to step out of their laboratories and humanists will have to give up their haughty disdain for modernity.
    • Towards the other wives and their children she was always extremely imperious, haughty and pretentious.
    • In reality, Fawzia was more shy than cold, and she certainly wasn't arrogant or haughty.
    • They grew haughty in their scorn, vain of their beauty, proud of their long life.
    Synonyms
    proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself, above oneself
    informal snooty, sniffy, hoity-toity, uppity, uppish, cocky, big-headed, swollen-headed, puffed up, high and mighty, la-di-da, fancy-pants, on one's high horse, too big for one's boots
    British informal toffee-nosed
    North American informal chesty
    informal, dated too big for one's breeches
    literary vainglorious

Derivatives

  • haughtily

  • adverb ˈhɔːtɪli
    • When quite modest health care reforms were introduced by New Labour in England, Scottish Labour was haughtily dismissive of them.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She looked haughtily at me for a second and turned away, resuming her conversation.
      • Waiters with tables to fill are heartily welcoming instead of haughtily aloof.
      • The woman wearing said fake fur turned around quickly, shot Mom a deadly look, and then haughtily turned back around and ignored her.
      • Louise came in, saw us, said, ‘Excuse me,’ very haughtily, and marched out.

Origin

Mid 16th century: extended form of obsolete haught, earlier haut, from Old French, from Latin altus 'high'.

  • altitude from Late Middle English:

    Altitude is from Latin altitudo, from altus ‘high’. The latter is also the source of altar (Old English), a raised structure for worship, enhance (Middle English), originally ‘make higher’; exalt (Late Middle English), with ex- ‘out, upwards’; and haughty (mid 16th century), from altus via French haut.

Rhymes

forty, naughty, pianoforte, rorty, shorty, sortie, sporty, UB40, warty

Definition of haughty in US English:

haughty

adjectiveˈhɔdiˈhôdē
  • Arrogantly superior and disdainful.

    傲慢的,盛气凌人的

    a look of haughty disdain

    傲慢轻蔑的表情。

    a haughty aristocrat

    一傲慢的英国贵族人士。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He would be stuck up, haughty and stubborn most likely, but she knew that he was in her immediate future.
    • He stoops to sign in, then turns to the friend with an expression of haughty disdain.
    • He was haughty, erratic, self-obsessed and his violin-playing was atrocious.
    • Cyclists feel aggrieved that they run the gauntlet of motorised traffic, which they also regard with haughty contempt.
    • Guys showing off their bulging biceps, big sideburns and carrying a haughty look are out.
    • They grew haughty in their scorn, vain of their beauty, proud of their long life.
    • She looked down at him, a haughty and imperious expression on her little face.
    • He walks with a quick sure gait and the self-confidence of a haughty personage.
    • She was unlike most nobles he had met; even as beautiful as she was, she was not haughty and vain.
    • When she first meets people Penny is conceited and haughty.
    • Some feigned smiles, others looked away with haughty contempt.
    • Towards the other wives and their children she was always extremely imperious, haughty and pretentious.
    • At the risk of sounding haughty, I would say that the art is mediocre.
    • Scientists will have to step out of their laboratories and humanists will have to give up their haughty disdain for modernity.
    • In reality, Fawzia was more shy than cold, and she certainly wasn't arrogant or haughty.
    • One has a look of perplexed surprise; the other, a haughty indifference.
    • After he finishes something he imagines particularly clever, he ends up looking smug and haughty.
    • They became haughty and arrogant, and began to love the art of subterfuge and deception, as well as politics and law.
    • Her demeanor was proud and haughty, and her stance bespoke power and determination.
    • Portia sat at the row behind them, filing her nails and looking imperiously haughty.
    Synonyms
    proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself, above oneself

Origin

Mid 16th century: extended form of obsolete haught, earlier haut, from Old French, from Latin altus ‘high’.

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