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# haughtily

«haughtily» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a proud way, looking down on other people as if they…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (more haughtily, most haughtily)

### meaning for a pupil

In a proud way, looking down on other people as if they were less important. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haughtily/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a proud or rude character speaks or looks at others; in the lessons it shows a character's bad manners or pride

### examples

- The queen looked at the servant haughtily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haughtily/#x1)
- "I shall not answer," she said haughtily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haughtily/#x2)
- He tossed his head haughtily and walked away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haughtily/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [O love the LORD, all ye His godly ones; the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully repayeth him that acteth haughtily.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.470/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «haughtily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haughtily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.