high-nosed

adj

high-nosed

adj

1

Dated snobbish; supercilious

He pictured her to himself as a high-nosed, haughty-mannered, handsome, heartless woman, who would try to make him uncomfortable by being cold and distant to him.1868, Annie Thomas, Playing for High Stakes, page 79:

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