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Consider the haughtiness of her unforgettable dowager in “Gosford Park” set against the character’s dire financial straits.

There was a playfulness and affability that was lacking this year, and was instead replaced by tension, haughtiness, indifference and downright rudeness — a sentiment that I heard from multiple camp mates, both old and new.

He also said that Ms. Young’s lack of response to some emails from the defense “suggests a degree of haughtiness.”

Macron has crystallised anger with a series of faux pas and cutting remarks over the past six years that have left a lasting impression of haughtiness among the general public.

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Servants dance attendance on this obstreperous youngster, whose haughtiness is no doubt inflamed by her cold, aristocratic mother and distracted military captain father.

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