Sentence examples for excessive haughtiness from inspiring English sources

As the ancient historian Cassius Dio writes: Sejanus was so great a person by reason both of his excessive haughtiness and of his vast power, that, to put it briefly, he himself seemed to be the emperor and Tiberius a kind of island potentate, inasmuch as the latter spent his time on the island of Capreae.

"Her haughtiness got to me".

Ms. Winslet displays no such haughtiness.

"I'm going to try haughtiness.

Others dislike his thin-skinned haughtiness and infuriating evasiveness.

My parents laughed at my haughtiness.

But Yelena's haughtiness is just one mask of many.

Kitty's haughtiness leads to her getting her comeuppance.

His shoulders sloped, the haughtiness vanished from his face.

Excessive C.E.O.

Excessive tobacco.