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Meanings of hauteur in anglès
Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.
Synonyms
Examples for "arrogance"
Examples for "arrogance"
1
Lucky said that the arrogance of Europe belittled the beliefs of millions.
2
The result: an arrogance that makes colleagues unwilling to work with you.
3
This is yet another sign of arrogance from this government, Goldsmith said.
4
Precisely identifying the point when that confidence tipped into arrogance is difficult.
5
Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.
1
The haughtiness of these ecclesiastical princes drove them to the proudest humility.
2
But the more they humbled themselves, the higher was his haughtiness raised.
3
And, when the prayer was over, he said with his old haughtiness:
4
She dresses well and carries herself with a kind of sweet haughtiness.
5
He had lost somewhat of his assurance, his pride and overbearing haughtiness.
1
All the assumptions of an essential lordliness remain-andnone of the duties.
2
With the innate lordliness of a brother he already put it down to jealousy.
3
Dom Manuel smiled, and you saw that he retained at least his former lordliness.
4
But Josephine felt nothing humiliating in his lordliness.
5
The thing of importance is everywhere the individual who is trying to show off his lordliness.
1
Some senior players shared his displeasure with the manager's selections and high-handedness.
2
Naturally, the people of Dingle are upset at this ministerial high-handedness.
3
For his high-handedness she would make him suffer in kind.
4
It will be construed as the usual high-handedness Europe employs in relation to Latin America.
5
Even the 'democratic interventionists' were angered by Wilson's high-handedness.
Usage of hauteur in anglès
1
To think otherwise takes the hauteur of a 1950s East Berlin apparatchik.
2
There was a subtle hauteur in the voice; it subdued Kitty's inquisitiveness.
3
She has neither airs nor hauteur; you will be marvellously well received.
4
She stalked off with as much hauteur as her arthritis would allow.
5
An air of studied hauteur and indifference as they approached the corner.
6
And as she looked she laughed with just the suggestion of hauteur.
7
But the Corinthians also were full of disputatious curiosity and intellectual hauteur.
8
Nor is it about snobbery: I may have had moments of hauteur.
9
Her manner was timid yet dignified without the least particle of hauteur.
10
He flung open the window, and said, with some degree of hauteur:
11
Rather they have a chilly neo-classical hauteur that speaks of sublime ambition.
12
But back of the gentleness was a hauteur, and they were still.
13
He surveyed the man who addressed him with a touch of hauteur.
14
He was gravity and coldness personified, with a shade of hauteur added.
15
His sense of humour awoke, and Federalist hauteur ceased to fret him.
16
Only for a brief second did this strange and uncalled-forhauteur obtain.
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