hauteur

Example Sentences

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Endowed with a formidable hauteur, her Jocasta acts graciously, but with an unmistakable note of condescension.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

“Whatever nomenclature you prefer,” Elizabeth offers, accentuating her speech with oozing hauteur.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024

His critics often observed that he might have come much closer to his stated goals had he not expressed and pursued them with such ferocity and impatience, or treated his critics with such hauteur.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

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

Sliding, she charged by, talking to some other Charm Bracelet, both of them moving with that lazy, confident hauteur they all had.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides