Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
HAUGHTINESS
arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness
(noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
haughtiness (countable and uncountable, plural haughtinesses)
The state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery.
Source: Wiktionary
Haugh"ti*ness, n. Etym: [For hauteinness. See Haughty.]
Definition: The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.
Syn.
– Arrogance; disdain; contemptuousness; superciliousness; loftiness.
– Haughtiness, Arrogance, Disdain. Haughtiness denotes the expression of conscious and proud superiority; arrogance is a disposition to claim for one's self more than is justly due, and enforce it to the utmost; disdain in the exact reverse of condescension toward inferiors, since it expresses and desires others to feel how far below ourselves we consider them. A person is haughty in disposition and demeanor; arrogant in his claims of homage and deference; disdainful even in accepting the deference which his haughtiness leads him arrogantly to exact.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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