| 单词 | haughty |
| 释义 | haughty (once / 399 pages) adj Someone who is haughty is arrogant and full of pride. When you're haughty, you have a big attitude and act like you're better than other people. A haughty person acts superior and looks down on others. Haughty people are disdainful, overbearing, prideful, swaggering, and obnoxious. Acting amazed that others haven't heard of a hot new band is haughty. Speaking in a cocky or superior way is haughty. The word even sounds a little like its meaning: it's hard to say haughty without sounding like you have an attitude. If you're acting like others are beneath you, you're being haughty. WORD FAMILYhaughty: haughtier, haughtiest, haughtily, haughtiness+/haughtiness: haughtinesses USAGE EXAMPLESMs. Huppert’s character, much like Ms. Breillat, is haughty and defiantly independent, but without fully realizing it, she is played for a sucker. New York Times(Nov 16, 2016) “You can’t keep dating him. He’s gay,” Tiffany says with haughty indifference. New York Times(Nov 13, 2016) She also played a haughty veteran stage star in the original 1980 Broadway production of “42nd Street.” Washington Post(Nov 01, 2016) adj having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy haughty aristocrats Syn disdainful, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering proud feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride |
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