Haughty – Meaning, Synonyms, and Usage

The word “Haughty” is used to describe people who are arrogant, full of pride, and have no respect for the opinions of others. A Haughty person has a lot of attitudes and looks down on others.

Haughty – Meaning

• Speaking in a disrespectful, cocky way with no regard for other’s feelings is Haughty behavior.
• Having a presumptuous, careless attitude towards others and others’ situations is haughty in nature.

Degrees of Comparison

• Haughty – Haughtier- Haughtiest

Other forms of Haughty

• Haughtily – Adverb
• Haughtiness – Noun

Antonyms

• Humble
• Shy
• Timid
• Meek
• Down-to-earth
• Modest
• Unpretentious

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Usage of Haughty in Sentences

1. John’s haughty behavior made all his friends abandon him.
2. Never be haughty while talking to your subordinates.
3. The commissioner of police is a haughty personality and always treats his colleagues with disrespect.
4. The leader of that tribe is a haughty and coercive person.
5. His haughty and reckless behavior made him lose all the opportunities he received.
6. Her parents are not nearly so haughty as I had imagined them to be.
7. The Imperialists always looked down haughtily on the natives with scorn and racism.
8. Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty. – Jefferson Davis
9. Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
10. Rosie’s haughty impatience led to her downfall as an administrator.
11. She said haughtily, “I will do whatever I wish”.
12. The manager’s haughty and condescending remarks on the employee made him resign.
13. The king negotiated with the enemy in a haughty way without any compromise.
14. His character in the film is that of a haughty young man with no care about his career.
15. She rejected their offer with a haughty attitude.

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