hauteur
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9.9
- noun
- /oʊˈtɜr/
- Formal
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altivez
- A half-smile flickered around her mouth; her eyes, deep brown, looked out, he thought, with the shrewd hauteur of the peasant.
- lordly hauteur
Examples
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His hauteur was evident when he looked down on others who disagreed with him.
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"Thicker than I ever was with yours," she said with faint hauteur.
Fiction book (1991) -
Her distrustful hauteur evaporated as soon as she recognized the man.
Fiction book (1992) -
She had felt his exclusion, his hauteur, his rebuff.
Fiction book (1997) -
"Imposing?" Mrs. Luckschein's voice was firm, but so high and thin that it reached Lotte's ear as a kind of hauteur.
Fiction book (1999) -
He eyed me with the impartial hauteur of a lion into whose den a mouse has crept.
Fiction book (1999) -
With a tone of unmistakable hauteur, she dismissed the idea as unworthy of her consideration.
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She spoke with the hauteur of someone who believed they were above the common crowd.
Synonyms
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4.8
Being too proud and acting as if you are better than others
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6.1
Acting or feeling that you are better than other people and making them feel small
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7.9
A way of acting that shows you think you are better than other people
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7.4
A way of behaving like you are better than other people because of money or class
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8.4
Treating people in a rude, bossy way and not listening to them
Behaving as if you are better than other people
A feeling that you are better than other people
Behaving proudly and as if one is better than others
Antonyms
How Arrogant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hauteur comes from the French word haut, meaning 'high', and is like the English idea of height or being 'high above' others. Imagine someone standing 'high above' people — that picture helps explain why hauteur means acting as if you are better than others.