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"haughtiness" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that describes someone who is arrogant, proud or superior. Example sentence: She was accused of haughtiness for refusing to talk to the other students in her class.
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haughtiness
noun
The state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery.
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In both, communitarians have come to blows with cosmopolitans.The communitarian argument, as the responses to Mr Parris indicate, starts with the claim that Britain's political disillusionment stems from the haughtiness of liberal metropolitan elites.
"His feeling of offense at Obama's putative haughtiness ('chin jutting out') might be a long-ago-imbibed white southern upbringing bubbling to the surface, but more likely a flailing partisan rage that could just as easily have been directed at a white Democrat," Mr Chait wrote.
Both countries draw domestic profit from striking an occasional attitude of haughtiness towards the Americans.
Others dislike his thin-skinned haughtiness and infuriating evasiveness.
Being the "promulgator of dharma," the king should himself be free from the six passions of sex, anger, greed, vanity, haughtiness, and overjoy.
She conveys effectively enough her character's doubts and insecurities as well as her haughtiness and sense of entitlement.
He went on to admit: "This unassuageable American craving for the British country house is bound to get on my nerves, having grown up in the 1950s and '60s with a Jacobinical rage against the moth-eaten haughtiness of the toffs".
His portrayal of a repressed aristocrat whose haughtiness hides his growing affection for Elizabeth Bennet earned Firth a devoted following.
And, anyway, Dovecote Christian's motto alone ("We Ask the Questions") should have tipped you off to a haughtiness that bars parents even from Parents' Night.
But Clarke trills and singsongs her lines through a mask of haughtiness or ever-widening smiles.
He had none of Barak's haughtiness or Benjamin Netanyahu's emotional unease.
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