How to Use haughty in a Sentence

haughty

adjective

• He rejected their offer with a tone of haughty disdain.
• This is amusing stuff, well served by Coogan’s knack for haughty composure in the face of the absurd.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
• For starters, there's not a headband or haughty set of pearls in sight.
  — Molly Fahner, Cosmopolitan, 6 May 2009
• These ghosts are sexy, rude, naughty, haughty and shocking.
  — Angela Ledgerwood, Esquire, 5 June 2017
• Hoel wore her silvery-gray hair in a tight bun that revealed a haughty face.
  — Amos Zeeberg (discover Web Editor), Discover Magazine, 15 July 2010
• No culture is too haughty for a sight gag or too elitist for a pun.
  — Michelle Cohn, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2022
• Her Beatrice is rich, spoiled and haughty, but has a weird love for Burt (heightened by his scars in a weird kink).
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2022
• Who knew that the haughty Madame Dumont was really named Daisy?
  — Jeanine Basinger, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• Where, wondered the haughty Britons, were the other 12 ministers?
  — Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
• Min-ah’s haughty mother-in-law abuses her and Min-ah’s weasel of a husband cheats on her.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• One can argue that Golden State is too cool, too haughty and too damn good.
  — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 9 June 2018
• The haughty old taboo against clapping between movements is long gone.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• Many years later, haughty Thebes refused to submit to Alexander the Great.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• Still, a puzzle lurks within that mood of public glee at seeing the haughty-but-dirty brought low.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2020
• The landlord is a haughty, ill-humored owl who demands payment in moths.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
• But pride goes before destruction, says the book of Proverbs, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2021
• And while talk of national championships may sound silly and even haughty at the moment, the school had to find a place to start.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 12 Feb. 2020
• Paul is both strict and pedantic, with a haughty and sarcastic manner.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
• Centaurs, even the haughtiest ones, are fine with her riding them.
  — Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, 12 Feb. 2014
• Based loosely on Pride and Prejudice, Bridget falls in love with the wrong man while the haughty right man is just under her nose.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 14 Jan. 2023
• The haughty Fabienne isn't the same person as the woman who plays her, but make no mistake — nobody else could play her.
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 3 July 2020
• This is just one of the vignettes that Ms. Glenconner offers about the haughty, aloof culture into which she was born.
  — Alexandra Wolfe, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2020
• Verlander enjoyed the trappings of stardom, and could come across as haughty.
  — Shawn Windsor, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
• As for Parisians, across the rest of the country they are considered haughty and entitled, and also wimpy drivers.
  — Scott Sayare, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2015
• William’s wife, Kate, now the Princess of Wales, is haughty and cool, brushing off Meghan’s homeopathic remedies.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
• On Regent Street: hats off to the window dresser for Guess, who had accessorized the store’s haughty mannequins with a pair of fake corgis.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 4 June 2022
• His resume is jam-packed with awards and accolades, yet there’s no haughty air in Southern’s demeanor that would give that away.
  — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
• Lasting friendships were made with, among others, Billy Zane, who played the film’s villain, haughty Cal.
  — Donald Liebenson, HWD, 18 Dec. 2017
• Pride Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 11 May 2018
• After first clashing in front of a village crowd with bamboo sticks, the haughty adversary demands a rematch with real blades.
  — Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024