Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.
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 .
6 Fouquet's ostentation and haughtiness had made him enemies among the old nobility.
7 Montezuma, with all his pride and haughtiness , is but their humble servant.
8 He came to Jake with a certain haughtiness , and stood before him.
9 Carrier's insolent secretaries emulate the intolerable haughtiness of a ci-devant minister's lackeys.
10 We have need to subdue vanity, haughtiness , self-glorification, and other worldly ways.
11 Instantly Mr. Dreux's embarrassment left him and he assumed a chilling haughtiness .
12 Thus, also, is it with man, whose haughtiness thrusts him into evil.
13 Clears her, however, of intentional pride, scorn, haughtiness , or want of sensibility.
14 At the door he left her, in self-approving haughtiness , and tramped the lawn.
15 There was a trace of the old-time haughtiness in her bearing.
16 Her haughtiness in the day of glory was simply fatuous, based on stupidity.
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