0 unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than other people:
1 unreasonably proud and unfriendly:
A vocal delivery that might seem haughty or conceited, too mellifluous or elegant, excessively 'musical', or calculated to please others must be avoided.
The haughty attitudes of the pre-war era were slow to disappear.
This form, though generally more masculine than feminine, may be used by tough or haughty female teachers and other females in authority.
The tone throughout is haughty and condescending, reinforced by flashes of knowingly superior humour.
Pavlov ensured such indifference in advance by haughty dismissal of any other approach.
Manchester was rather more haughty about who could join.
They thought they were all haughty and arrogant.
But we have reservations nevertheless of a very vital character which cannot be removed either by any haughty contempt or complete silence.