Contemptuous vs. Haughty — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Contemptuous and Haughty
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Contemptuous
Manifesting or feeling contempt; scornful.
Haughty
Scornfully and condescendingly proud.
Contemptuous
Showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.
I don't know that guy, but he just gave me a contemptuous look.
Haughty
Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
Contemptuous
Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
A proud, contemptuous behavior.
Savage invective and contemptuous sarcasm.
Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
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Haughty
High; lofty; bold.
To measure the most haughty mountain's height.
Equal unto this haughty enterprise.
Contemptuous
Expressing extreme contempt
Haughty
Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.
A woman of a haughty and imperious nature.
Haughty
Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.
Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,Came towering.
Haughty
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy;
Some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
Haughty aristocrats
His lordly manners were offensive
Walked with a prideful swagger
Very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
His mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
Shaggy supercilious camels
A more swaggering mood than usual
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