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What (who) is HAUGHTILY - definition
Haughtily
·adv In a haughty manner; arrogantly.
haughtily
see haughty
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![[[Pride parade]], [[Düsseldorf]] 2017](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2017-05-27 Düsseldorf, Christopher Street Day (10) (freddy2001) (cropped).jpg?width=200 "[[Pride parade]], [[Düsseldorf]] 2017")
!["All Is Vanity" by [[C. Allan Gilbert]], evoking the inevitable decay of life and beauty toward death](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Allisvanity.jpg?width=200 "\"All Is Vanity\" by [[C. Allan Gilbert]], evoking the inevitable decay of life and beauty toward death")
, probably after 1621, NGA 5360.jpg?width=200 "Jacques Callot, ''Pride (Vanity)'', probably after 1621")
![Detail of "Pride" in ''[[The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things]]'' by [[Hieronymus Bosch]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jheronimus Bosch Table of the Mortal Sins (Superbia).jpg?width=200 "Detail of \"Pride\" in ''[[The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things]]'' by [[Hieronymus Bosch]]")
![''Pride, from the Seven Deadly Sins'' by [[Jacob Matham]] c. 1592.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pride, Jacob Matham.png?width=200 "''Pride, from the Seven Deadly Sins'' by [[Jacob Matham]] c. 1592.")
![''The Father and Mother'' by [[Boardman Robinson]] depicting [[War]] as the [[offspring]] of [[Greed]] and Pride.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Father and Mother.jpg?width=200 "''The Father and Mother'' by [[Boardman Robinson]] depicting [[War]] as the [[offspring]] of [[Greed]] and Pride.")
SELF-ESTEEM AND SELF-ESTEEM; A STATE OF SATISFACTION WITH ONESELF BECAUSE OF THE EFFORTS MADE OR THE BENEFITS OBTAINED
Secondary pride; Proud (emotion); Self-satisfaction; Haughty; Unhumbleness; Fake pride; Group pride; Haughtiness; Proudness
You use haughty to describe someone's behaviour or appearance when you disapprove of the fact that they seem to be very proud and to think that they are better than other people.
He spoke in a haughty tone.
ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]
• haughtily
Toni looked at him rather haughtily.
ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj
Examples of use of HAUGHTILY
1. I was haughtily amused that he could imagine that I might reciprocate.
2. Indeed, she seems haughtily indifferent to the perception of conflicts of interest in her work.
3. Do not turn your cheek away from people in false pride, nor walk haughtily on earth.
4. Walking haughtily is another type of behavior suggesting carelessness about people and their feelings.
5. She is haughtily reading a book and pretending not to notice the attention.