How do you use Haughtily in a sentence? See 5 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Haughtily meaning
In a haughty manner; with excessive or unwarranted pride.
Using Haughtily
- The main meaning on this page is: In a haughty manner; with excessive or unwarranted pride.
Context around Haughtily
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Haughtily
- In this selection, "haughtily" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, poster, retreat, city, showing, claiming and drifted stand out and add context to how "haughtily" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a poster haughtily showing why and feelings she haughtily rejects ralph. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "haughtily" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with haughtily
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Disguising her true feelings, she "haughtily rejects" Ralph's "proffered love". (11 words)
I went to a Boulder restaurant, and they had a poster haughtily showing why they don’t use plastic straws. (20 words)
In a normal universe, the BJP would have been sweating buckets, but Modi announced a meditation retreat, haughtily claiming that he would occupy 7, Lok Kalyan Road for another five years. (31 words)
It may not make a jot of difference when it comes to the destination of the league title, with Manchester City haughtily observing from a long distance away, but Rashford chose a good day to remind everyone of his penetrative qualities. (41 words)
So she shape-shifted into a baby dragon (she wasn’t big enough to be a full sized version), snorted out a dense puff of grey aimed right at Raven then haughtily drifted off. (34 words)
In a normal universe, the BJP would have been sweating buckets, but Modi announced a meditation retreat, haughtily claiming that he would occupy 7, Lok Kalyan Road for another five years. (31 words)
Example sentences (5)
I went to a Boulder restaurant, and they had a poster haughtily showing why they don’t use plastic straws.
In a normal universe, the BJP would have been sweating buckets, but Modi announced a meditation retreat, haughtily claiming that he would occupy 7, Lok Kalyan Road for another five years.
So she shape-shifted into a baby dragon (she wasn’t big enough to be a full sized version), snorted out a dense puff of grey aimed right at Raven then haughtily drifted off.
It may not make a jot of difference when it comes to the destination of the league title, with Manchester City haughtily observing from a long distance away, but Rashford chose a good day to remind everyone of his penetrative qualities.
Disguising her true feelings, she "haughtily rejects" Ralph's "proffered love".