Haughty vs. Insolent

Haughtyadjective

Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.

Insolentadjective

Insulting in manner or words.

Haughtyadjective

High; lofty; bold.

‘To measure the most haughty mountain's height.’; ‘Equal unto this haughty enterprise.’;

Insolentadjective

Rude.

Haughtyadjective

Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.

‘A woman of a haughty and imperious nature.’;

Insolentadjective

Cheeky.

Haughtyadjective

Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.

‘Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,Came towering.’;

Insolentnoun

A person who is insolent.

Haughtyadjective

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’;

Insolentadjective

Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual.

‘If one chance to derive any word from the Latin which is insolent to their ears . . . they forthwith make a jest at it.’; ‘If any should accuse me of being new or insolent.’;

Insolentadjective

Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant.

‘Insolent is he that despiseth in his judgment all other folks as in regard of his value, of his cunning, of his speaking, and of his bearing.’; ‘Can you not see? or will ye not observe . . . How insolent of late he is become,How proud, how peremptory?’;

Insolentadjective

Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting; as, insolent words or behavior.

‘Their insolent triumph excited . . . indignation.’;

Insolentadjective

marked by casual disrespect;

‘a flip answer to serious question’; ‘the student was kept in for impudent behavior’;

Insolentadjective

unrestrained by convention or propriety;

‘an audacious trick to pull’; ‘a barefaced hypocrite’; ‘the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim’; ‘bold-faced lies’; ‘brazen arrogance’; ‘the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress’;

Insolentadjective

showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect

‘she hated the insolent tone of his voice’;