Negative display of pride with a very high degree of oneself and a low of others or the world in general.
Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.
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The haughtiness of these ecclesiastical princes drove them to the proudest humility.
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But the more they humbled themselves, the higher was his haughtiness raised.
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And, when the prayer was over, he said with his old haughtiness:
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She dresses well and carries herself with a kind of sweet haughtiness.
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He had lost somewhat of his assurance, his pride and overbearing haughtiness.
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To think otherwise takes the hauteur of a 1950s East Berlin apparatchik.
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There was a subtle hauteur in the voice; it subdued Kitty's inquisitiveness.
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She has neither airs nor hauteur; you will be marvellously well received.
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She stalked off with as much hauteur as her arthritis would allow.
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An air of studied hauteur and indifference as they approached the corner.
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All the assumptions of an essential lordliness remain-andnone of the duties.
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With the innate lordliness of a brother he already put it down to jealousy.
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Dom Manuel smiled, and you saw that he retained at least his former lordliness.
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But Josephine felt nothing humiliating in his lordliness.
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The thing of importance is everywhere the individual who is trying to show off his lordliness.
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Some senior players shared his displeasure with the manager's selections and high-handedness.
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Naturally, the people of Dingle are upset at this ministerial high-handedness.
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For his high-handedness she would make him suffer in kind.
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It will be construed as the usual high-handedness Europe employs in relation to Latin America.
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Even the 'democratic interventionists' were angered by Wilson's high-handedness.
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Lucky said that the arrogance of Europe belittled the beliefs of millions.
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The result: an arrogance that makes colleagues unwilling to work with you.
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This is yet another sign of arrogance from this government, Goldsmith said.
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Precisely identifying the point when that confidence tipped into arrogance is difficult.
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Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.
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He was always free with the words and liberal with the arrogance.
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Look what American power and arrogance did for your homeland, your people.
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And there was importance in his step and arrogance in his speech.
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That this is combined with a completely unwarranted arrogance compounds the problem.
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Divulge the full truth if you hope to see your arrogance overlooked.
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Many non-scientists feel that, in making this claim, science displays great arrogance.
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Traders in a small way arouse all the arrogance of the planter.
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In the pure arrogance of the reason, we have all overlooked it.
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What was honourable pride in Johnson was, indeed, simple arrogance in Savage.
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I think the family's arrogance gene might be inactive in my case.
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It was also arrogance, I believe, that led him to spare me.
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