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haughtily

Adverb

Meaning

In a haughty manner; arrogantly.

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Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors. John Calvin

Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own." Ivan Turgenev

he peered haughtily down his nose Source: Internet

An eminent professor of Law with a well-honed reputation for social activism, he also wears rather haughtily, a visage that seems to bear a permanent scowl against bad behaviour and official graft. Source: Internet

By exercising these desires virtually, Sims haughtily maintains, he is actually stopping himself and men like him from acting on these impulses in the real world. Source: Internet

Twin peacocks haughtily flaunt their feathers, a distinct blue like the sky that lights this image. Source: Internet

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