haughtiness is considered to be a vulgar trait in a tennis player. From LearnThat.org.
The haughtiness is a pathetic attempt at protective voodoo. From Wordnik.com. [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]
Cool green eyes assessed her confusion with the kind of haughtiness that was normally associated with royalty. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress On Demand]
Trewhella’s secretive grey eye, made Somers stiffen his back, and a kind of haughtiness flew into his soul. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
He received it with indifference and some haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
He stiffened his neck and replied with much haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
"Well! what is it?" she asked, with crushing haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Samaria that say in the pride and haughtiness of their heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
There was a trace of the old-time haughtiness in her bearing. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
A perceptible haughtiness crept into her manner towards the girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
It was impossible to show more pride, haughtiness, and disdain than. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The maids find fault with Elektra's strange behaviour and haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Their expressions ran the gamut from sheepishness to blank haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation] Reference
"Why?" interrupted the Countess, raising her head with still more haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He scanned Hilda narrowly, while she returned his glance with her usual haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
"Impossible to discuss these matt'rs with you," he said, with an effort at haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
Mark Green fell on the sword of arrogant opportunism, a victim of hubris and haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [A Warning Shot From Latin U.S.A.] Reference
In the fourth act Lady Harriet feels remorse for the sad consequences of her haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Mandingoes have but little patience with the well-known haughtiness of their national rivals. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
She received my present with an insulting haughtiness, and pushed me into the tent with disdain. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB): Isaiah] Reference
There was even a haughtiness which was pathetic, knowing as the village did the story of his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Pride and haughtiness, and command and oppression, were now written on her face, and ruled her gestures. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
There was dead silence after this speech, which Gwen broke at last, and her tone was haughtiness itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
The other causes are haughtiness, fear, eminence, contempt, disproportionate increase in some part of the state. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
She dropped her lashes and drew back with a touch of the old haughtiness, murmuring something he could not hear. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
But immediately gaining confidence, he assumed an air of resolute haughtiness, which was not lost upon the minister. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Ellenor was tall and angular, with a certain nobility and haughtiness of carriage inherited from her fisherman father. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
St. Cyril having read them, sent him a mild expostulation ob the subject, but was answered with haughtiness and contempt. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
He is tall, fair haired, handsome; the carriage of his head, the haughtiness of his bearing, reminds more than one present of Clifford. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Selfishness and ambition, haughtiness and envy, all the baser passions of human life, seemed to have fled before the almighty power of. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
We have heard the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud: his haughtiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the loftiness of his heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
The haughtiness and cruelty of Tarquin inspired the Romans with the greatest aversion to regal government, which they retained ever after. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
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