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haughtiness

/haw-tee-nis/US // ˈhɔ ti nɪs //

傲慢,傲慢无礼,傲慢的态度,傲慢态度

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : scornful pride, snobbishness, or arrogance:I was accused of having an air of superiority, of haughtiness, of indifference or condescension to others.

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Examples

  • And surely big shots like these, with their haughtiness and hedonism, have it coming.

  • "He was not in my service," said Nigel, with a sudden, very English stiffness that was almost like haughtiness.

  • But he was past reason now, and he was not the man to brook haughtiness, however courteously it might be cloaked.

  • He had treated the German nobility with haughtiness; this plain scholar he treated as an equal.

  • With much of his father's haughtiness of manner he combined a tactfulness and self-control which his father never exhibited.

  • Then my fear left and great joy came; perhaps even some pride and haughtiness of spirit in that I had been chosen for such a task.