meaning of haughty
1. High; lofty; bold.
2. Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.
3. Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.
4. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W. L. Shirer
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