behaving in an unfriendly way towards other people because you think that you are better than them:
a haughty face / look / manner * He replied with haughty disdain.
haughtily adverb
haughtiness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for haughty is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is haughty a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, haughty is tagged as adjective.
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