haughty

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The word haughty is used synonymously for the word arrogant both as the dictionary definition and in the Bible.

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  1. adjective Scornfully and condescendingly proud. See Synonyms at proud.

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  • Certainly no one could blame them for being too arrogant or haughty, and yet everybody was well aware that they were proud and quite understood their own value. —  The Idiot
  • He recalled the haughty contempt with which his protestations of love had been received. —  Thuvia, Maid of Mars
  • "I know not what he may be now_, if he still lives, but he was then an exceedingly proud, haughty, and overbearing man, very impatient and hasty of temper, as I had had many opportunities of noticing; and he had, moreover, no sympathy with the movement with which I had associated myself. —  The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba
  • Steve was studiedly haughty, as, to his mind, became one who was unjustly suspected of dishonesty. —  Left End Edwards
  • Pamela, I allowed, was exactly the heroine Miss Liston loved--haughty, capricious, difficile, but sound and true at heart (I was mentally skimming Volume I.). —  Comedies of Courtship
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proud ·  arrogant ·  imperious ·  contemptuous ·  stern ·  fierce ·  aristocratic ·  resolute ·  stubborn ·  ambitious ·  lofty ·  suspicious
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Middle English haut, from Old French haut, halt, alteration (influenced by Frankish hōh, high) of Latin altus, high; see al-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Prop., as formerly, hauty (the gh having been erroneously inserted in this word and haught after the supposed analogy of naughty, etc., perhaps particularly in imitation of high, hight, etc.); formerly hauty, haultic, from Middle English hautein, hautain (the suffix -ein, -ain, becoming -y through the form hautenesse, standing for *hauteinnesse: see haughtiness), from Old French hautain, later spelled haultain, French hautain, haughty, lofty, stately, proud, from Old French haut, hault, halt, high: see haut.
 

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