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Meanings of hauteur in inglês

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Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.

arrogância
Usage of hauteur in inglês
1
To think otherwise takes the hauteur of a 1950s East Berlin apparatchik.
The Irish Times
2
There was a subtle hauteur in the voice; it subdued Kitty's inquisitiveness.
The Lure of the Mask
3
She has neither airs nor hauteur; you will be marvellously well received.
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 7
4
She stalked off with as much hauteur as her arthritis would allow.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
5
An air of studied hauteur and indifference as they approached the corner.
One Basket
6
And as she looked she laughed with just the suggestion of hauteur.
The Island of Faith
7
But the Corinthians also were full of disputatious curiosity and intellectual hauteur.
The Life of St. Paul
8
Nor is it about snobbery: I may have had moments of hauteur.
The Guardian
9
Her manner was timid yet dignified without the least particle of hauteur.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals / In Two Volumes, V...
10
He flung open the window, and said, with some degree of hauteur:
The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate
11
Rather they have a chilly neo-classical hauteur that speaks of sublime ambition.
The Guardian
12
But back of the gentleness was a hauteur, and they were still.
A Mountain Woman
13
He surveyed the man who addressed him with a touch of hauteur.
The Bars of Iron
14
He was gravity and coldness personified, with a shade of hauteur added.
Monsieur Lecoq, v. 1
15
His sense of humour awoke, and Federalist hauteur ceased to fret him.
Lewis Rand
16
Only for a brief second did this strange and uncalled-forhauteur obtain.
Graustark
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