hauteur
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Anna, her hauteur hardening like a protective shell, is aghast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Displaying as always her couture hauteur, Miranda, who doesn’t even remember Andy from her long-ago gig, tosses the former assistant in a terrible office and tells her she will inevitably fail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
“Whatever nomenclature you prefer,” Elizabeth offers, accentuating her speech with oozing hauteur.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2024
Credit the haute modness to the costume designer Daniel Cruden but her hauteur to the screenwriter Akela Cooper, who has a way with melodrama.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
Nathan had told her, some months earlier, in a voice filled with hauteur, that he did not read any fiction published after 1930.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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