haughty
adjective
having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
- “some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines”
- “haughty aristocrats”
- “his lordly manners were offensive”
- “walked with a prideful swagger”
- “very sniffy about breaches of etiquette”
- “his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air”
- “a more swaggering mood than usual” W.L.Shirer
Origin
From earlier hauty, haultic, with spelling change in imitation of English naughty and English high, from Middle English hautein, hautain (with -ein, -ain becoming -y through the form hautenesse standing for *hauteinnesse; see haughtiness), from Middle English haute (“self-important”), from Old French haut, hault (“high, lofty”), from Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, lofty, proud”) and Latin altus (“high, deep”).
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