hauteur
Example Sentences
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“Whatever nomenclature you prefer,” Elizabeth offers, accentuating her speech with oozing hauteur.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024
As a character, Miss Liza Jane combines the hauteur of opera diva Jessye Norman and the sermonizing wisdom of Maya Angelou.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023
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
With smug hauteur, she said: “You did when I was confirmed.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2022
Nor did Oppenheimer share the hauteur that other theoretical physicists displayed toward Lawrence and his crew of preoccupied tinkers.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
