Possessing or displaying an attitude of superiority and disdain; characterized by a lofty and contemptuous manner.
The king looked down at the peasant. With a haughty sniff, he declared the man's request too common for his royal attention. He held his chin high, a clear sign he thought himself far better than anyone else.
The prize-winning poodle, Bartholomew, looked down his long snout at the scruffy terrier. His perfectly coiffed fur seemed to vibrate with a haughty air as he imagined the terrier's muddy paws soiling his immaculate pedigree.
The merchant looked down his nose, his voice a low sneer as he explained why my roughspun tunic wouldn't do for his esteemed clientele. His entire posture screamed a superior disdain; a haughty air that said I was beneath him, merely a peasant daring to enter his fine establishment.
Barnaby, with his perfectly coiffed hair and even more perfect sneer, surveyed the room. He'd just dropped a crumb from his biscuit, a catastrophe of epic proportions. His nose twitched with an air of superiority, a truly lofty and contemptuous manner for such a small oversight.
Barnaby Buttercup, the prize-winning giant pumpkin, possessed a haughty air, judging all smaller gourds from his vine. He sniffed at the zucchini, clearly thinking himself superior, and displayed a disdainful bulge when the novelty watermelon rolled nearby. His lofty manner made him the most feared (and ridiculous) squash in the patch.
The queen, with her chin held high and a dismissive flick of her wrist, looked down on the supplicant. Her voice, laced with a haughty tone, clearly communicated her belief that the commoner was beneath her notice.
The famed artisan, known for her intricate glassblowing, surveyed the novice's clumsy attempt with a haughty sneer. She held her chin high, a clear look of disdain crossing her face, as if the mere proximity of such inferior work offended her refined sensibilities.
The seasoned mycologist, Professor Thorne, surveyed the amateur's petri dish with a barely suppressed sigh. His brow furrowed, and a distinctly haughty tilt to his chin dismissed the flimsy evidence of a rare slime mold. Clearly, he thought, this novice had no grasp of true fungal taxonomy.
Bartholomew, with his nose held so high it could sniff out a distant croissant, surveyed the picnic blanket. His perpetually haughty expression suggested the very existence of mustard was an insult to his refined palate. He sniffed, a tiny tremor of disdain rippling through his impeccably coiffed hair.
Barnaby, surveying his kingdom of meticulously organized dust bunnies, adopted a truly haughty air. He sniffed at Bartholomew the snail's slow progress, convinced his own swift scuttling across the Persian rug was the pinnacle of achievement, a fact he made abundantly clear with a disdainful wiggle of his antennae.
The new manager walked in with a haughty air, looking down her nose at everyone. Her dismissive tone and curt replies made it clear she believed herself vastly superior and cared little for the opinions of her subordinates.
The prize-winning orchid cultivator, surrounded by her impossibly perfect blooms, wouldn't even glance at the wilting petunias in my meager window box. Her haughty sniff and turned nose made it clear she considered my amateur efforts an offense to her meticulously maintained greenhouse.
The collector, a woman whose gaze always seemed to skim past you, never even acknowledged the other patrons in the gallery. Her pronouncements on the art were delivered with a haughty air, as if mere mortals couldn't possibly grasp the profundity of her interpretations.
Barnaby, convinced his mustache was a divine gift, surveyed the peasants from his balcony with a haughty air. He’d occasionally flick a crumb from his scone, a gesture of profound superiority, while the rabble below merely dreamt of lukewarm ale.
Barnaby, a hamster of immense girth and questionable intelligence, surveyed his dominion of cedar shavings with a haughty air. He’d just polished off his third sunflower seed, a feat he considered proof of his inherent, unassailable superiority over the common wheel-runners.
Her haughty posture and dismissive glance made it clear she considered everyone else a mere pawn. The imperious way she delivered her pronouncements, laced with an air of profound disdain, left no doubt about her self-appointed eminence.
The newly appointed chief archivist surveyed the cataloging team with a haughty air. Her condescending gaze implied their humble efforts were beneath her considerable intellect, a palpable disdain for their meticulous, yet to her, inadequate, systems.
The seasoned cartographer surveyed the apprentice’s flawed attempt at a continental shelf, a dismissive sneer twisting his lips. His tone, imbued with a haughty air, conveyed that the young man's efforts were utterly negligible, hardly worth the ink wasted upon the parchment.
The peacock, with its iridescent plumage preening, surveyed the humble pigeons with a truly haughty disdain, as if their mere existence sullied its impeccable, aristocratic aesthetic. It strutted with such lofty contempt, one half-expected it to demand a royal decree banishing the plebeian fowl from its gilded perches.
Barnaby, a veritable pontiff of polenta, regarded the communal vat of simmering grits with a haughty sneer. His meticulously coiffed schnauzer, a creature of impeccable pedigree, refused even to sniff the peasant concoction, its silken muzzle held aloft in an almost synchronized display of disdain for anything less than artisanal truffle-infused kibble.
Advanced — Less frequent words that stretch an upper-level vocabulary.