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the haughtiness
noun
The state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery.
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His shoulders sloped, the haughtiness vanished from his face.
The haughtiness, they think, is more of an undergraduate thing, since undergrads tend to be British.
If such a declaration seems arrogant, perhaps it is because the haughtiness has not yet been fully earned.
Despite the haughtiness for which this city is renowned, the community that has developed around them is uncommonly inclusive.
Service is near perfect, without a trace of the haughtiness that can occur in such a restaurant.
They might be further put off by the haughtiness of Obama's claim to the mantle of hope.
But he didn't have the haughtiness or intolerance of a lot of people, and of course he's a wonderful writer".
She also talks to her floral bedspread and her TV remote ("Oh the haughtiness of a handheld device!").
Although he is incestuously lusted after by Kathryn Howden's Phèdre and, more cautiously, by Sarah Lawrie's Aricia, he shows no evidence of the haughtiness they ascribe to him.
And David Sabin gives the eldest brother, Ben, the haughtiness and élan of a large man who is confident of what he wants and can get.
Yet another has the haughtiness to refer to himself as The John Dory, and claims the earliest he can "squeeze us in" is the eleventh of May.
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