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In the mid 14th century, it was sirly `like a sir,' or `lordly, haughty, imperious, arrogant, supercilious.
On CNN's Late Edition (the only pundit show taped after Meet the Press ), Susan Page opines that Gore's campaign-finance ploy worked and Tucker Carlson says that Bradley looked haughty, but Steve Roberts thinks that Gore came across as he always does--like a nervous Nellie.
The townspeople find the proprietors invasive and insufferably haughty; the owners, in turn, call the locals homophobes and rubes.
(Intriguing, though, to learn that Microsoft only approached Funk & Wagnalls to collaborate on an encyclopedia CD-ROM after being turned down by a haughty Encyclopedia
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.