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Meanings of haughtiness in English

Portuguese
arrogância
Catalan
inflor
Spanish
orgullo

Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.

        arrogância
        Russian
        гордость
        Portuguese
        soberba
        Spanish
        soberbia
        Catalan
        supèrbia

        Emotion.

            Related terms
            гордость
            Usage of haughtiness in English
            1
            The haughtiness of these ecclesiastical princes drove them to the proudest humility.
            The Shadow of the Cathedral
            2
            But the more they humbled themselves, the higher was his haughtiness raised.
            Holland: The History of the Netherlands
            3
            And, when the prayer was over, he said with his old haughtiness:
            Tell England / A Study in a Generation
            4
            She dresses well and carries herself with a kind of sweet haughtiness.
            The Price She Paid
            5
            He had lost somewhat of his assurance, his pride and overbearing haughtiness.
            Darkness and Dawn
            6
            Fouquet's ostentation and haughtiness had made him enemies among the old nobility.
            The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 / A Magazin...
            7
            Montezuma, with all his pride and haughtiness, is but their humble servant.
            By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico
            8
            He came to Jake with a certain haughtiness, and stood before him.
            Charles Rex
            9
            Carrier's insolent secretaries emulate the intolerable haughtiness of a ci-devant minister's lackeys.
            The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series
            10
            We have need to subdue vanity, haughtiness, self-glorification, and other worldly ways.
            The Shellback's Progress / In the Nineteenth Century
            11
            Instantly Mr. Dreux's embarrassment left him and he assumed a chilling haughtiness.
            The Net
            12
            Thus, also, is it with man, whose haughtiness thrusts him into evil.
            The World's Great Sermons, Volume 08: Talmage to Knox Little
            13
            Clears her, however, of intentional pride, scorn, haughtiness, or want of sensibility.
            Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1
            14
            At the door he left her, in self-approving haughtiness, and tramped the lawn.
            Babbitt
            15
            There was a trace of the old-time haughtiness in her bearing.
            Flamsted quarries
            16
            Her haughtiness in the day of glory was simply fatuous, based on stupidity.
            The Old Wives' Tale
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