Example sentences for: haughty

How can you use “haughty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The townspeople find the proprietors invasive and insufferably haughty; the owners, in turn, call the locals homophobes and rubes.

  • It confuses 1) the valid observation that Microsoft often has a haughty attitude in general; 2) the at least arguable contention that it has run afoul of antitrust law; 3) the plausible suggestion that hiring more lobbyists, etc., would be a smart thing to do; and 4) the entirely absurd notion that refusing to pay tribute inside the Beltway amounts to some kind of ethical failing.

  • , strewn with cow chips, computer chips, and potato chips, to the haughty elevators of the Condé Nast Building on Madison Avenue, and instantly fit right in--stylewise, at least.

  • Gilbert could be a stand-in for Leigh himself--a haughty, ill-humored man with an obsession for tiny details and a glowering dedication to process.

  • The decaying, cream-colored building still exudes a certain haughty, if melancholy, grandeur.


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