Voorbeelden van haughty

• 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.