as in arrogance
an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims
she looked at him with the hauteur of someone who is accustomed to being instantly obeyed
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Recent Examples of hauteur
There was some explanation for his elusiveness, quite apart from the everyday hauteur of the fashion industry.
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Fortunately, Ruth has an elegant hauteur to call on in these situations.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
They are written with a thuggish hauteur, as if Pacino’s Tony ‘Scarface’ Montana had been transplanted to the world of music promotion – all machismo and ultimatums.
—Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
With his chilly hauteur and unflattering Prince Valiant hairdo, Jordan is a plain villain amid characters who otherwise collectively lurch between sympathetic victimhood and viciously cruel mob mentality.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Fortunately, Ruth has an elegant hauteur to call on in these situations.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
They are written with a thuggish hauteur, as if Pacino’s Tony ‘Scarface’ Montana had been transplanted to the world of music promotion – all machismo and ultimatums.
—Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
With his chilly hauteur and unflattering Prince Valiant hairdo, Jordan is a plain villain amid characters who otherwise collectively lurch between sympathetic victimhood and viciously cruel mob mentality.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hauteur
Noun
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Solskjaer felt that overconfidence bordering on arrogance might be PSG’s Achilles’ heel.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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Titan: Plunges into the chilling 2023 submersible tragedy, peeling back the layers of ambition, arrogance, and a lack of oversight that led to catastrophe.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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With the Soviet Union’s collapse, the United States enjoyed a margin of superiority that would have been unimaginable to earlier great powers.—
A. Wess Mitchell,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Will this Lucid’s obvious superiority from a rational perspective be able to offset the minivan-esque styling?—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Hauteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hauteur. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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