hauteur

• He sent word to Blackwood once with great hauteur, after some suggestion from that house had been made to him which appeared to him to interfere with his independence as an author, that he was one of “the Black Hussars” of literature, who would not endure that sort of treatment. —  Sir Walter Scott
• He was very good at that look of hauteur, as she had conceded before tonight. —  Mary Balogh - Irresistible.pdf
• While Obama supporters attempt to dismiss the charges about their candidate's perceived hauteur, they confuse privilege and elitism. —  Top Stories - Google News
• [92] The latter is a great favourite of Lady Beauvale's, to whom she was always very kind, and who describes her exactly as your Majesty does, as being very "amiable and unassuming," and though one of the first, if not the first lady at Vienna, as not at all partaking of the insolence and hauteur which is by some ascribed to the society of that capital. —  The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
• Meantime Dr. Vincent and myself have been doing your work here for you to the best of our abilities In answer to which Dr. Armitage drew himself up with an air of extreme hauteur, and said, addressing Mr. Hastings The time has come, sir, for you to choose between this gentleman and myself. —  Three People

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