haughty

adjective
🔊/ˈhɔːti/
🔊/ˈhɔːti/
(comparative haughtier, superlative haughtiest)
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  1. behaving in an unfriendly way towards other people because you think that you are better than them傲慢的;高傲自大的 synonym arrogant
    • a haughty face/look/manner自负的面容/神态/态度
    • He replied with haughty disdain.他的回答充满了不屑。🔊🔊
    • She threw him a look of haughty disdain.她鄙夷地瞥了他一眼。
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryHaughty is used with these nouns:
    • disdain
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: extended form of obsolete haught, earlier haut, from Old French, from Latin altus ‘high’.