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  • adjective comparative form of haughty: more haughty

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Examples

  • The swing-role fighter is cheaper and more easily and quickly constructed than its haughtier brother, so there tend to be larger numbers of them.

    Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale 2010

  • Yet they snapped up the $5 shirts from street vendors, as well as haughtier (and exponentially more expensive) options from top-flight designers such as Diane Von Furstenburg, Donna Karan and Beyoncé's own House of Dereon.

    As Obama's popularity drops, so do sales of his merchandise 2010

  • Yet they snapped up the $5 shirts from street vendors, as well as haughtier (and exponentially more expensive) options from top-flight designers such as Diane Von Furstenburg, Donna Karan and Beyoncé's own House of Dereon.

    As Obama's popularity drops, so do sales of his merchandise 2010

  • Yet they snapped up the $5 shirts from street vendors, as well as haughtier (and exponentially more expensive) options from top-flight designers such as Diane Von Furstenburg, Donna Karan and Beyoncé's own House of Dereon.

    As Obama's popularity drops, so do sales of his merchandise 2010

  • Her elder brother, who trode the path of ambition with a haughtier step than his father, had also more of human affection.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • But, autocrat that she was, all of it only served to make her haughtier, ruder, more overbearing.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • But, autocrat that she was, all of it only served to make her haughtier, ruder, more overbearing.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • No action could be colder, haughtier, more insolent in its air of supremacy and disrespect, but she had struggled against even that concession ineffectually, and it was wrested from her.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • On their way upstairs they had heard the sound of a harp, but it had ceased on their being announced, and Edith now stood beside it handsomer and haughtier than ever.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • Love's expression was haughtier than Constantine's, but it too had a hint of melancholy.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

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