HAUGHTILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does haughtily mean? 

• HAUGHTILY (adverb)
  The adverb HAUGHTILY has 1 sense:

1. in a haughty manner

  Familiarity information: HAUGHTILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAUGHTILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a haughty manner

Context example:

he peered haughtily down his nose

Pertainym:

haughty (having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy)

 Context examples 

But the maid answered her, and even spoke more haughtily than before: “Drink if you will, but I shall not be your waiting-maid.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“It matters little to me her not being at home,” said Rosa Dartle haughtily, “I know nothing of her. It is you I come to see.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Presently she came back up the road again, her head haughtily in the air, not deigning to take any further notice of her silent attendant.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She turned as I drew near, and looked at me haughtily: her eyes seemed to demand, What can the creeping creature want now? and when I said, in a low voice, Mr. Rochester, she made a movement as if tempted to order me away.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

What is that to thee, you ugly imp? said the prince haughtily, and rode on.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“He would have risen against all constraint; but he found himself the monarch of the place, and he haughtily determined to be worthy of his station. It was like himself.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

During this interval, even Adele was seldom sent for to his presence, and all my acquaintance with him was confined to an occasional rencontre in the hall, on the stairs, or in the gallery, when he would sometimes pass me haughtily and coldly, just acknowledging my presence by a distant nod or a cool glance, and sometimes bow and smile with gentlemanlike affability.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But the manner of the speech, no less than the matter, was so fiery, that Miss Murdstone, without a word in answer, discreetly put her arm through her brother's, and walked haughtily out of the cottage; my aunt remaining in the window looking after them; prepared, I have no doubt, in case of the donkey's reappearance, to carry her threat into instant execution.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Sloane didn't enter into the conversation but lounged back haughtily in his chair; the woman said nothing either—until unexpectedly, after two highballs, she became cordial.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

We went on, cutting back again over the Park toward the West Hundreds. At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses. Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)