How to Use haughty in a Sentence

haughty

adjective

• He rejected their offer with a tone of haughty disdain.
• For starters, there's not a headband or haughty set of pearls in sight.
  — Molly Fahner, Cosmopolitan, 6 May 2009
• No culture is too haughty for a sight gag or too elitist for a pun.
  — Michelle Cohn, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2022
• These ghosts are sexy, rude, naughty, haughty and shocking.
  — Angela Ledgerwood, Esquire, 5 June 2017
• The haughty old taboo against clapping between movements is long gone.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• The landlord is a haughty, ill-humored owl who demands payment in moths.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Verlander enjoyed the trappings of stardom, and could come across as haughty.
  — Shawn Windsor, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
• Centaurs, even the haughtiest ones, are fine with her riding them.
  — Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, 12 Feb. 2014
• Still, a puzzle lurks within that mood of public glee at seeing the haughty-but-dirty brought low.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2020
• That line of thinking seems haughty and presumptuous even in normal times.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2022
• One can argue that Golden State is too cool, too haughty and too damn good.
  — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 9 June 2018
• Who knew that the haughty Madame Dumont was really named Daisy?
  — Jeanine Basinger, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• The haughty implication is that those on public assistance don’t want to work.
  — Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
• But pride goes before destruction, says the book of Proverbs, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2021
• Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her haughty stepmother.
  — Charlotte Walsh, Peoplemag, 3 May 2023
• Pride Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 11 May 2018
• She is known for a regal bearing that borders on haughty, but her powers are sharply limited.
  — Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Their surfaces will seem daunting but look beyond these novels’ haughty, hefty façades.
  — Scott Bradfield, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
• Haute couture has long had a reputation as a universe of formal gowns, stiff suits and haughty demeanors.
  — wsj.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Many years later, haughty Thebes refused to submit to Alexander the Great.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• Almost everything has changed in the subsequent years, and yet his farewell speech to the nation was brimming with the same brand of haughty lecturing.
  — David Harsanyi, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2017
• But others said that shifting to the right while not appearing quite as haughty wouldn't inflict harm in a general election.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Topgolf aims to reset how the layperson experiences the game by placing a new kind of welcome mat outside golf’s haughty front gates.
  — Michael McKnight, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 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
• Murray’s haughty weatherman eventually found a way to break the cycle.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 9 Feb. 2020
• Tall and lanky, his sharp cheekbones, haughty gaze and acrobatic eyebrows served him in roles that ranged from royalty to fools.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 14 May 2018
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024