English to Icelandic Meaning of hauteur - hauteur

Hauteur :

hauteur

noun

hroki, Hubris, Stolt

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Definitions of hauteur in English

Noun(1) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

Examples of hauteur in English

(1) The West must discard its hauteur , its double standards, its superiority complex and its cultural zeal.(2) Daphne lifts her chin in an overblown attempt at hauteur and heads into the closet to fetch her coat.(3) Cynics might suggest that the jackets were commissioned to enhance the cultivated hauteur of the members.(4) At his words, the mocking hauteur disappears from her gaze.(5) The detached hauteur she assumes as she goads Don JosÔö£┬« into murder is fascinating and suggests an unusually compelling conception of this problem role.(6) The tiny, perfect form of Rakael shifted, cuddling more tightly against his firm warmth in her sleep, emerald eyes shut and her face relaxed from imperial hauteur to an open, curiously innocent expression.(7) Gathered together on wicker furniture are two women and a man, posing a bit as they react to the stormy weather conditions outside with a bit of stiff-necked hauteur .(8) By all reports straight and happily partnered with a female politician, Rickman nonetheless has the kind of suave, queeny hauteur any Noel Coward manque would kill for.(9) his natural coolness and aristocratic hauteur(10) His autocratic tendencies and hauteur towards the ex-convict population also brought him into conflict with his Legislative Council and sometimes with his masters in the Colonial Office.(11) Middle class people can claim neither the heroic struggles of the proletariat nor the cultural hauteur and effortless savoir faire of the aristocracy.(12) No more hiding behind a faÔö£┬║ade of hauteur , that's for poseurs.(13) she swept into the room with formidable hauteur(14) But they soon got used to my low-key presence and stared at me with supercilious hauteur .(15) Johan Kobborg played Prince Desire with the grandiloquence and hauteur he is so capable of.(16) Despite his much vaunted lack of emotional attachment to the trappings of title, the marquis has been cited as conducting his business with a distinctly aristocratic hauteur .

Synonyms

Noun

3. arrogance ::

hroki

4. pride ::

Stolt

5. conceit ::

conceit

6. snobbery ::

snobbery

8. superiority ::

yfirburði

9. self-importance ::

sjálf-mikilvægi

10. disdain ::

fyrirlitning

11. condescension ::

lítillætisraun

12. airs and graces ::

airs og graces

Antonyms

1. humility ::

auðmýkt

2. modesty ::

hógværð

Different Forms

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