haughty
adjective/ˈhɔːti/
/ˈhɔːti/
(comparative haughtier, superlative haughtiest)
- behaving in an unfriendly way towards other people because you think that you are better than them synonym arrogant
- a haughty face/look/manner
- He replied with haughty disdain.
- She threw him a look of haughty disdain.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryHaughty is used with these nouns:- disdain
Word Originmid 16th cent.: extended form of obsolete haught, earlier haut, from Old French, from Latin altus ‘high’.Definitions on the go
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