hauteur

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Recent Examples of hauteur The kitchen borrowed the ingredient worship of Chez Panisse, but not its reverence for simplicity; the fancy culture-mash pizza of Spago, but not its Eurocentric hauteur; the cheffy precision of the French Laundry, but not its fussy formality. Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025 There was some explanation for his elusiveness, quite apart from the everyday hauteur of the fashion industry. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025 They are written with a thuggish hauteur, as if Pacino’s Tony ‘Scarface’ Montana had been transplanted to the world of music promotion – all machismo and ultimatums. Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025 With his chilly hauteur and unflattering Prince Valiant hairdo, Jordan is a plain villain amid characters who otherwise collectively lurch between sympathetic victimhood and viciously cruel mob mentality. Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hauteur
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Noun
  • This propensity for mental acrobatics, alongside his immense arrogance, was how Epstein rationalized his crimes to himself.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Using him comes across as arrogance.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Europeans, including Las Casas initially, claimed superiority as Christians, as most of the Africans Europeans encountered were either Muslim or animist.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Their innovation is to replace the demagogue’s roar with the bureaucrat’s moral superiority.
    Alexis Coe, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Hauteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hauteur. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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