haughtiness

How To Use haughtiness In A Sentence

• The haughtiness is a pathetic attempt at protective voodoo. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
• Their faults can be as large in scale as their virtues, and an excessively negative Leonian can be one of the most unpleasant human beings imaginable, displaying extreme arrogance, autocratic pride, haughtiness, and excessive hastiness of temper. Archive 2007-07-01
• His crushing critiques, if not born of arrogance, have at times been delivered with a haughtiness that practically swaggers across the page or the airwaves.
• He had that good reason for sympathy with haughtiness and coldness, which is found In a fellow – feeling. Dombey and Son
• Page 297 to me that son altesse royale might be seriously hurt, that nothing in her demeanour had announced her, rank; and such a discovery might lead to increased distance and reserve in her future conduct upon other extra audiences, that could not but be prejudicial to her popularity, which already was injured by an opinion extremely unjust, but very generally spread, of her haughtiness. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
• There's something so extraordinary about the pride, the haughtiness, the explicit sensuality of flamenco which is so unBritish.
• Haughtiness invites disaster , humility receives benefit.
• His bold and free demeanour, his attachment to rich dress and decoration, his inaptitude to receive instruction, and his hardening himself against rebuke, were circumstances which induced the good old man, with more haste than charity, to set the forward page down as a vessel of wrath, and to presage that the youth nursed that pride and haughtiness of spirit which goes before ruin and destruction. The Abbot
• Zeno used to invite those who called the haughtiness of Perikles a mere courting of popularity and affectation of grandeur, to court popularity themselves in the same fashion, since the acting of such a part might insensibly mould their dispositions until they resembled that of their model. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
• If they exchanged surreptitious winks over the appearance of Agatha, they are to be excused, for that lady's demeanor was one of frigid haughtiness, which is never quite impressive to those who live close to nature. 'Firebrand' Trevison