Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.
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 - for hauteur obtain.
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