Crossword-Solution: HAUGHTINESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Haughtiness | n. | The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “HAUGHTINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Yellow sunflower | 1 answer |
| Proud quality | 1 answer |
| Snobbery | 10 answers |
| superbity | 19 answers |
| hubris | 20 answers |
| Morgue | 20 answers |
| egotism | 23 answers |
| Hauteur | 23 answers |
| forwardness | 24 answers |
| complacency | 25 answers |
| Narcissism | 27 answers |
| Egoism | 27 answers |
| high mightiness | 28 answers |
| Contumely | 35 answers |
| lip service | 37 answers |
| loftiness | 41 answers |
| Sneer? | 41 answers |
| Insolence | 44 answers |
| Effrontery | 45 answers |
| Arrogance | 50 answers |
| Conceit | 50 answers |
| Scorn | 50 answers |
| assumption | 51 answers |
| Disdain | 55 answers |
| Pride | 56 answers |
| Ridicule | 81 answers |
| Slight | 101 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HAUGHTINESS (5)
Nothing could be more gracefully majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness, easily acquired by the exercise of unresisted authority.
See Arrogant.] The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; selfÐassumption; presumption.
Modesty of deportment is becoming at all; bashfulness often gives rise to mistakes and blundering; diffidence is society frequently makes a man a burden to himself; shyness usually produces a reserve or distance which is often mistaken for haughtiness.
The following is from the first edition:-- “At that time there was a most beautiful girl in Via di San Gallo, who was married to a cap-maker, and who, though born of a poor and vicious father, carried about her as much pride and haughtiness, as beauty and fascination.
Will you receive him with extreme haughtiness? It would be a great satisfaction to me.” “The poor fellow! Why should I make him miserable? You should not be jealous, Luis.” “If you smile on him--the least little smile--he will think you are in love with him.
Quotes with HAUGHTINESS (3)
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my s…
Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of amusement and haughtiness that she carried off so well. It was a look that expressed disdain at Campion’s guarded advances but also a kind of measured probationary respect as well. It was a look that said You dare to think that I will find you as interesting as you obviously find me Well perhaps in that very act of daring you become interesting to me if only fleetingly.
Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1978).