hauteur
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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
Ted is a cartoon creep with an Oxbridge hauteur, but Theo’s shortcomings may be too subtly rendered for a play that cries out for more definition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
“Whatever nomenclature you prefer,” Elizabeth offers, accentuating her speech with oozing hauteur.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2024
The wives show up now and again in “The Woman King,” seated and standing in a cloud of regal hauteur.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
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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The Great Gatsby
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