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outhaughty en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + haughty.

Meanings

1. To be more haughty than.
   • One of my sources said it was fun and games to watch a haughty call girl outhaughty and upstage an unknowing Park Avenue hostess at whose home she was a guest. 2012, Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Office, →ISBN:
   • No one can outhaughty a cat, especially a sleek, shorthaired killer. 2011, Maria Schneider, Executive Sick Days:
   • The overcast had cleared and they were fifteen hundred feet up, with the blue-white peaks of the Quilak Mountains at their backs, stretching southeast to northwest, uncompromisingly beautiful and, Kate was pleased to see, effortlessly outhaughtying the Bakers. 1997, Dana Stabenow, Breakup, →ISBN, page 54:
   • If this Sidhe, this so-called cousin, thought he could outhaughty me, intimidate me, he was sadly mistaken. 2009, Maria Lima, Blood Bargain, →ISBN:

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