haughty (ˈhoːti)adjective very proud.a haughty look;a haughty young woman.altanero,arrogante,engreído ˈhaughtilyadverb altaneramente,arrogantemente, engreídamente ˈhaughtinessnoun altanería,arrogancia,engreimiento Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd. ...
bristle, abound, burst - be in a state of movement or action; "The room abounded with screaming children"; "The garden bristled with toddlers" brim - be completely full; "His eyes brimmed with tears" carry, pack, take - have with oneself; have on one's person; "She always takes an...
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter The aged woman made no reply; hereyesstill studied Ramona's face, and she still held her hand. Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fineeyesof the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall. ...
They poured into the ear of the humiliated queen the most revolting and loathsome execrations. FromProject Gutenberg She remembered the many scenes in which her spirit had been humiliated by haughty assumptions. FromProject Gutenberg My failure to accomplish the desired result is grievously exasperatin...
... progressed poor Ned first flushed deeply, then grew as ashy pale as the sunburn on his cheeks would permit; his eyes dilated with horror, and when Williams had finished the lad struggled to his ...— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood ... oldest of all the multiplying Eng...
room—a little woman with beautiful, melancholy eyes and a pretty figure. Illiterate, common, affected, and vain to a degree, hideously misusing the English language in that low,dulcetvoice of hers, ludicrous in her application of the debatable aspirate to words in the spelling of which it....
Here is fairer game for you; At thy feet the lovingest heart is laid That ever a Grand Duke knew. A lady rich in womanly pride, Whose soul clings unto thine, Is ready to be an Imperial bride— Kneel with thee atHymen's shrine. Come back, come back, or thy haughty sire Will comma...
" he said to himself, with all a man's dislike of the prevailinghobble. He pondered how to open the conversation, asking himself uneasily what punishment the girl would award him for his faux pas of the afternoon. Would she be haughty? She didn't look the kind of little thing to......
To put into another's hands, to trust; to commit to the care of. To put off, to divest; to lay aside; as, to put off a robe; to put off mortality or the mortal body; to put off haughty airs. 1. To turn aside from a purpose or demand; to defeat or delay by artifice. I ...
Although the eyebrow sense of "supercilious" is now obsolete, it does help explain what ornithologist John Latham meant in 1782 when he described a "Supercilious K[ingfisher]" with a narrow orange stripe over its eyes.Synonyms arrogant assumptive bumptious cavalier chesty haughty high-and-...