Haughty vs. Imperious — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Haughty and Imperious
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Haughty
Scornfully and condescendingly proud.
Imperious
Arrogant and domineering
His imperious demands
Haughty
Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
Imperious
Arrogantly domineering or overbearing.
Haughty
High; lofty; bold.
To measure the most haughty mountain's height.
Equal unto this haughty enterprise.
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Imperious
Urgent; pressing
An imperious necessity.
Haughty
Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.
A woman of a haughty and imperious nature.
Imperious
(Obsolete) Regal; imperial.
Haughty
Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.
Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,Came towering.
Imperious
Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
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
Imperious
Urgent.
Imperious
(obsolete) Imperial or regal.
Imperious
Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic.
Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness,Imperious.
Imperious
Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner.
This imperious man will work us allFrom princes into pages.
His bold, contemptuous, and imperious spirit soon made him conspicuous.
Imperious
Imperative; urgent; compelling.
Imperious need, which can not be withstood.
Imperious
Able to deal authoritatively with affairs;
Dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand
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