What does hauteur mean?
Hauteur means Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness..
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/oʊˈtɝ/ · noun
Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness..
[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.
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?
“What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.
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 […]
Sometimes the hauteur is nothing more dire than a kind of black-mother wit.
Use hauteur when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hauteur means Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[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.
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