What's the difference between haughtily and haughty?
Haughtily
Definition:
(adv.) In a haughty manner; arrogantly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron calls him unacceptable and illegitimate, haughtily scorning Juncker's drive to become the next head of the EU executive in Brussels.
(2) There was no prospect of a revival down the route of haughtily dismissing their beliefs as naive or plain wrong.
(3) When Ian Hislop became editor of Private Eye in 1986, Waugh left haughtily and abusively to take up the editorship of the Literary Review, a monthly owned, and heavily subsidised, by Naim Attallah.
(4) The LA-based performer, who performs under her first name, has every right to act a little haughtily.
(5) Sir Peter Vardy, meanwhile, haughtily offered the opinion that "far from celebrating, [the Parents' Action Group] should be reflecting on the opportunity they have denied their children for an education of the very highest standard in state-of-the-art facilities".
(6) How haughtily, how decisively we marginalised our parents, and other relatives who hadn't expired early from respiratory diseases or industrial accidents.
(7) Separatism can no longer be haughtily dismissed as a question for the fringes: it will sit at the heart of UK politics.
(8) "No regrets," she asserts haughtily, knocking back a glass of rakija , the local tipple.
(9) Perhaps there is resentment because the clemency and respect that are being mawkishly displayed now by some and haughtily demanded of the rest of us at the impending, solemn ceremonial funeral, are values that her government and policies sought to annihilate.
(10) "Will you just look at him, staring off into the distance with those big sad eyes, occasionally tottering and overbalancing, wandering haughtily across some of the finest greenswards that this great land has to offer.
(11) Wiener's adversaries here become now-familiar Thatcherite punchbags – the BBC, for instance, an institution of paternalist arrogance which haughtily refused to give the public the money-generating entertainment it really wanted; or the universities, devoted to the lefty talking shop of the "social sciences" rather than robustly useful applied science.
(12) While the losers might state haughtily that they have higher priorities, this loss stung them.
Haughty
Definition:
(superl.) High; lofty; bold.
(superl.) Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.
(superl.) Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he was apt to say to those with a haughty attitude things like: "Do you know who I am?
(2) The mountain is haughty and proud, an enormous glacier fills the valley in front and in the foreground – giving scale to the scene and a sense of infeasibility to the task facing the men inside them – is a little collection of tents.
(3) In "Marching (As Seen from the Left File)", for instance, he describes the men from the perspective of one of them and in "Break of Day in the Trenches" he identifies with the lowly rat against the "haughty athletes".
(4) One member, in a very haughty voice, said, rather like Lady Bracknell's "A handbag?"
(5) Janice Turner, The Times 'Haughty' … Gwyneth Paltrow.
(6) The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, said Mandela "was never haughty.
(7) Her supposed haughtiness, she claims, stems simply from a lack of confidence.
(8) Nobody in Whitehall wants to risk a repeat of the calamity of 1973 – when President Richard Nixon ordered an end to intelligence sharing with Britain, having taken a dim view of Edward Heath's cosiness to Europe, and his haughty attitude to the US.
(9) The SNP leader would like to stage the referendum in 2014, the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, one of those rare Scottish victories over England on the battlefield when Robert the Bruce and his stubborn warriors defeated a large and haughty force of English knights.
(10) The surprise in the film was not just that the French had made a decent rom-com – "We were all saying, suddenly, when it was made, that it was sort of the best of the French and the British types of these films, which is rare, and why it works" – but that Paradis, with no comedy films behind her, had made such a fine rom-com lead: mesmerisingly watchable in the first half in particular, when she plays haughty and hard-to-get; before, of course, the melt.
(11) Strong-arming a second administration out of consulting a suffering populace could look dangerously like haughty contempt.
(12) Many in Ireland, used to the populist bonhomie of working-class male politicians such as Bertie Ahern, have always found her cool, even haughty.
(13) Not many clubs can say that,” Wenger said, during a slightly haughty press conference.
(14) Jadranka adds: "This was my offence," and she pulls out an identity card from the period: a haughty face, high cheekbones, jet black hair and very beautiful.
(15) Tall and with a haughty baritone not unlike that of his conservative arch-enemy William F Buckley Jr, Vidal appeared cold and cynical on the surface.
(16) And when the British belatedly repented their haughty disdain for the European project, and applied to join, it was under Harold Macmillan’s Tory government.
(17) As if to atone for that disaster, its latest ill-advised form of words, chosen to pacify the restive masses, is " It is not prejudiced to worry about immigration " – but that won't dispel the lingering whiff of haughty moral judgment (shades here of a danger that awaits all out-of-touch politicians: the rhetorical equivalent of Ceausescu's right hand, attempting to still the crowd as the gesture made them even more irate).
(18) His comments have a grain of truth in them, certainly, but they played to the Times's weak spot – the impression that it can radiate a patrician aloofness, of haughty disregard of the lessons it could learn from competitors.
(19) Dimitar Berbatov slotted it away with haughty indifference to mere goalkeepers at spot-kicks.
(20) And the moment they find one, they launch into a performance of such deranged, self-assured haughtiness, the Daily Mail seems hopelessly amateur by comparison.