haughtily

English

haughtily (comparative more haughtily, superlative most haughtily)

In a haughty manner; with excessive or unwarranted pride.
He haughtily demanded the best table, even though people looked and wondered who he was.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 233:
  "I don't know what you mean," she said haughtily.

in a haughty manner

Dutch: hooghartig (nl)
Finnish: kopeasti (fi)
French: hautainement (fr), avec dédain
Galician: altivamente (gl)
German: hochmütig (de), stolz (de), überheblich (de), arrogant (de), geringschätzig (de)
Greek: ακατάδεκτα (el) (akatádekta)
Italian: altezzosamente (it), sprezzantemente (it)
Russian: надме́нно (ru) (nadménno), высокоме́рно (ru) (vysokomérno), зано́счиво (ru) (zanósčivo), кичли́во (ru) (kičlívo), свысока́ (ru) (svysoká)
Spanish: altivamente, altaneramente

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