hauteur

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Various explanations are offered for Obama's unfeeling hauteur and Europe's consequent heartache.
对奥巴马的冷酷傲慢，以及给欧洲带来的伤心，有多方面的解释。
A deeper shade of hauteur overspread his features, but he said not a word, and Elizabeth, though blaming herself for her own weakness, could not go on.
一阵傲慢的阴影罩上了他的脸，可是他一句话也没有说。伊丽莎白说不下去了，不过她心里却在埋怨自己软弱。
In those days everything from furniture to festivity was designed to be enjoyed by the many, so that whatever of pomp or magnificence there might have been did not savour of hauteur.
在那些日子里，从家具到节庆，一切都是为众人的享用而设计，因而无论有多么富丽堂皇，都没有倨傲的气息。

But she held her head high, flaring her nostrils a little, appraising the room with a residual trace of her anxious hauteur.
NEWYORKER: A Loaded Gun
Asana, daughter of Ya Namina, my grandfather's senior wife: a magnificent hauteur flowed like river water from the mother's veins through the daughter's.
NPR: 'Ancestor Stones:' Life and War in Sierra Leone
At the end of it, Wainewright emerges from his appalling hardships with a measure of genuine dignity that goes deeper than the affected hauteur of the dandy.
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a formal and unfriendly way of behaving that suggests that the person thinks they are better than other people

You can use hauteur to describe behaviour which you think is proud and arrogant.