What's the difference between haughtiness and humility?

Haughtiness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.

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.

Humility


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.
  • (n.) An act of submission or courtesy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Humility means that you question your performance every time, that you are ready to put a shift in.
  • (2) Lt General Stephen Speakes applauded Greene for a “sense of self, a sense of humility” and an exemplary work ethic, according to an account of the promotion ceremony published by the Times Union of Albany, New York, which called Greene an Albany native.
  • (3) In an interview in the Daily Telegraph today, the chancellor, Alistair Darling, said ministers ought to show "humility" for the mistakes that were made in relation to City regulation in the decade leading up to the recession.
  • (4) It is hard to explain the significance of the man to those who may not have been born at the time or informed of the freedom struggle, or born witness to his dignity, pride, humility and moral authority, but I and so many others revered him as a father and cherished his existence as a living secular saint.
  • (5) If the bank is wise, it will listen and show both humility and clear evidence of what it plans to change – and those changes, like its fines, should be big.
  • (6) But although it has been fashionable to describe the radical child psychiatrist as liberal, flexible, non-committed and open, true radicalism in chid psychiatry would be signalled by a return to structure, by careful and circumscribed clinical activity and by a proper measure of humility.
  • (7) He is convinced that the legends’ sporting training has imbued them with values such as humility, discipline and the tenacity to succeed.
  • (8) Work, courage, politeness, humility, honesty and self-transcendence were for him the fundamental pillars of his personality,” Michael said.
  • (9) The Trump team should project an aura of humility,” the newspaper advised in an editorial .
  • (10) To be a writer is largely a journey into humility, to be defeated by ever greater things, so this isn’t something you come to expect.
  • (11) He's got a fantastic humility about him, for all that he's achieved."
  • (12) I realised by working with them that a squad is guided with humility, intelligence and infinite patience.” Del Piero officially hung up his boots after a brief stint in the inaugural Indian Super League with Delhi Dynamos, calling it a day at the end of the 2014 season.
  • (13) Keeping his dignity despite a very public and protracted public humilation.
  • (14) He was offended by their lack of humility and once wrote.
  • (15) We must accept that and approach that with great humility.
  • (16) His humility, his advice and his generosity both on and off the stage come out in his music and that’s why he was so beloved.
  • (17) There is a humility in seeing, as Rick did in Casablanca, that the problems of a few “little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world”.
  • (18) Rudisha’s respect for his talent is a feature of the humility he sees as his defining characteristic.
  • (19) He doesn't do humility and nor do his organisations.
  • (20) Yes, of course it is, but a bit of humility amongst politicians never goes amiss.