hauteur

Example Sentences

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With smug hauteur, she said: “You did when I was confirmed.”

From Washington Post

She’s playing the loneliness and the heartbreak and the rage, and the emotional lunacy, mental breakdown and hauteur.

From New York Times

Fernandez is a true opera singer, from Philadelphia, who effervesces with wonder and benign hauteur.

From New York Times

And leave it to her to do so with a hauteur that belies her giddiness — a holdover, maybe, from her early career as a model, starting in high school.

From New York Times

Against this hauteur, the left clamors for the right to vote and the right for votes to be counted.

From Salon