Haughty In A Sentence

Q: How to use haughty in a sentence?

1. But her face was no longer haughty and cold. 2. Shall haughty men my back bestride? 3. And with haughty step she started to pass him. 4. That we may do more harmes then haughty pride. 5. He stiffened up, suddenly haughty looking.

Definition of Haughty

Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.

How To Use Haughty In A Sentence?

Meanwhile the old lady had retired with a haughty toss of her towering bonnet, followed by Franz.
He sought out the man he knew must be Colonel Roth by his haughty air and his stripes.
The ladies bowed with that kind of haughty acknowledgment which shows that compliments from such a source are distasteful.
In a blaze of haughty contempt he let his jackal see that he was understood and appreciated at his proper value.
Intrenched in their possessions the landed class looked down with haughty disdain upon the farming and laboring classes.
Then the girl turned and walked towards him with as haughty a carriage as ever a society belle could boast.
His only expression was that of haughty self-content; but there was no real pride in his bearing, and no reserve.
How proud he'd look under you, with that haughty snort he gives, as he bends his knee.

She was an apt pupil and soon became the most popular girl in the school, and the haughty ones were proud to be classed as her friends.
No sooner was she at the fountain than from the wood came a lady most handsomely attired, who asked the haughty girl for a drink from her pitcher.
Their positions were changed; the hitherto submissive daughter now commanded, and forced the haughty father to subjection.
She gathered up her skirts, and fled incontinently across the streets, with policemen looking after her with haughty disapprobation.
There was the same hard, stony glance, the same defiant bearing, the same haughty elevation of the brows.
Highly offended by this haughty command, the woman immediately retired, leaving me for the rest of that day in total solitude.
Gone the haughty usurpation of authority, gone the love of rule and command, gone the pride of personal charms.
Awtry received the sentence of the court with haughty indifference, and was led back to prison, to await death by hanging.

As it was unusual in one of his haughty and arrogant temper, it deceived completely all except Marcel and myself.
As for the rest of the wild beasts of the forests, he treated them all, without distinction, in the most haughty and disdainful manner.
He wondered, with his wide knowledge of the world, over her wild, haughty beauty, and gloated over it.
Lady Maria answered, with a haughty smile, that she rather conceived she had a right to dance before me.
But Isabel did not look at him, and all through the service she sat with a haughty pose of the head, gazing down into her lap.
Hans surveyed me with a watery eye as though waiting for me to explain them, but I looked haughty and declined to oblige.
He did not seem a happy man, nor even so haughty as I always imagined he would be in the midst of war delirium.
The haughty old Quaker, as was evident to us all, considered this search of his house a piece of gross insolence.

Wealth and honors were his and an English wife, a haughty woman of half-noble family, who completed the work of alienation.
A low growling chuckle escaped the Arab's deep chest, and his eyes flashed in haughty contempt.
The haughty Arab, however, might have been made of wood for all the sign he gave of either pain or humiliation.