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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 haugh·ty /ˈhɔti, ˈhɑ-/
 (a.)傲慢的,驕傲的,不遜的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Haugh·ty a. [Compar. Haughtier superl. Haughtiest.]
 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 haughty
      adj : 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"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, lordly, prideful,
             sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
      [also: haughtiest, haughtier]