Haughty
11haughty — [16] To be haughty is to be ‘above oneself’, or, to put it another way, to be ‘on one’s high horse’. For etymologically, haughty means simply ‘high’. It is an alteration of an earlier, now dead English adjective haught, which was borrowed from… …
12haughty — [[t]hɔ͟ːti[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) You use haughty to describe someone s behaviour or appearance when you disapprove of the fact that they seem to be very proud and to think that they are better than other people. He spoke in a… …
13haughty — Ho okano, hukikū, ha akei, ha aheo, heo, konā. Also: lanaha akei, haha, kaha, ha ikū, ke o, pi ilae, ke ēhilae. Fig.: kalalea, ihu pi i, ihu kū, pali. ♦ Haughty air, maka ki eki e. ♦ To walk or talk in a haughty or brisk way, kalalī …
14haughty — [16] To be haughty is to be ‘above oneself’, or, to put it another way, to be ‘on one’s high horse’. For etymologically, haughty means simply ‘high’. It is an alteration of an earlier, now dead English adjective haught, which was borrowed from… …
15haughty — adj. Haughty is used with these nouns: ↑disdain …
16haughty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. overbearing, arrogant, supercilious, proud, lordly, superior. See contempt, insolence. Ant., modest, humble. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. arrogant, disdainful, proud; see egotistic 2 , proud 2 . See… …
17haughty — haugh|ty [ hɔti ] adjective proud and unfriendly: a haughty expression ╾ haugh|ti|ly adverb ╾ haugh|ti|ness noun uncount …
18haughty — adjective haughtier, haughtiest behaving in a proud unfriendly way: a haughty laugh haughtily adverb haughtiness noun (U) …
19haughty — adjective he is both haughty and disdainful Syn: proud, arrogant, vain, conceited, snobbish, superior, self important, pompous, supercilious, condescending, patronizing; scornful, contemptuous, disdainful; full of oneself, above oneself; informal …
20haughty contempt — index disdain Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
