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
  • 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
  • The word means arrogant or haughty.
    — Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Their surfaces will seem daunting but look beyond these novels’ haughty, hefty façades.
    — Scott Bradfield, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Still, a puzzle lurks within that mood of public glee at seeing the haughty-but-dirty brought low.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2020
  • 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
  • That line of thinking seems haughty and presumptuous even in normal times.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2022
  • Verlander enjoyed the trappings of stardom, and could come across as haughty.
    — Shawn Windsor, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
  • All this special treatment hasn't made Nevada brothel girls haughty -- no way!
    — Stacey Grenrock Woods, Esquire, 1 July 2008
  • 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
  • Who knew that the haughty Madame Dumont was really named Daisy?
    — Jeanine Basinger, WSJ, 25 Nov. 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
  • The haughty implication is that those on public assistance don’t want to work.
    — Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Pride Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 11 May 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
  • 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
  • In those few seconds the normally likeable Burleson became very haughty.
    — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2025
  • As such, lionfish possess the haughty confidence of an apex predator.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2026
  • For all her brilliance, Didion might now be deemed too haughty to tolerate, the ultimate white girl.
    — Meghan Daum, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2015
  • Or playing a haughty party guest mingling at a Gossip Girl socialite shindig.
    — Danielle Sepulveres, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Many years later, haughty Thebes refused to submit to Alexander the Great.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Where, wondered the haughty Britons, were the other 12 ministers?
    — Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • 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

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