HAUGHTY

disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering

(adjective) 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”; “a more swaggering mood than usual”- W.L.Shirer

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

haughty (comparative haughtier, superlative haughtiest)

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

Synonyms

• See also arrogant

Source: Wiktionary

Haugh"ty, a. [Compar. Haughtier; superl. Haughtiest.] Etym: [OE. hautein, F. hautain, fr. haut high, OF. also halt, fr. L. altus. See Altitude.]

1. High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic] To measure the most haughty mountain's height. Spenser. Equal unto this haughty enterprise. Spenser

2. Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. Clarendon.

3. Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage. Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition