Hauteur

Quick meaning: Hauteur is a noun meaning Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.

Meaning

Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.

Example Sentences

Sometimes the hauteur is nothing more dire than a kind of black-mother wit.

[A]n angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.

I imagine the Dreamward’s Hotel Manager to be an avuncular Norwegian with a rag sweater and a soothing odor of Borkum Rif about him, a guy w/o sunglasses or hauteur […]

Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive hauteur by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick him rising strong within him?

Word Forms

• hauteurs

Related Words

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