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Meanings of chesty in English
Having extreme self-confidence and overbearing pride.
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Examples for "arrogant"
Examples for "arrogant"
1
President Grant in the beginning undertook to break down this arrogant claim.
2
He was of a feeble character, arrogant in prosperity, faint-hearted in adversity.
3
As the Mormons increased in power, they became more self-sufficient and arrogant.
4
As time went on Germany and Austria became more and more arrogant.
5
The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.
1
I did not, so I ignored what I considered a presumptuous question.
2
Wearing the ring of one's better can be viewed as quite presumptuous.
3
In face of the terrible tidings, that would have been too presumptuous.
4
He persisted in regarding the missionary as a presumptuous and execrated enemy.
5
Painting and sculpture seem to me the most presumptuous of the arts.
1
Yes, the process it precious and meticulous, but by no means pretentious.
2
The buildings were higher and much more pretentious in design and ornamentation.
3
I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.
4
There was nothing pretentious about the home in which he was raised.
5
I find the architecture pretentious, even in its present somewhat de-Romanized version.
1
The Senator was promptly and intensely interested in this cocksure declaration by
2
At that she laughed in a kind of a friendly, cocksure way.
3
He was a well-favored youth with an unlovely manner, haughty and cocksure.
4
Be cautious always; be especially cautious when you are cocksure you're right.
5
James DeGale is as cocksure as he is buttery-smooth inside the ropes.
1
When her brother saw me he grew self-important with knowledge and spoke.
2
But, of course-itis very natural-theythink that rather self-important and silly.
3
Well, he thought, blocky and self-important architecture or no, this was it.
4
And Milani, safe and secure and self-important, did not bother with peepholes.
5
I walked at the self-important speed of all managers visiting an insubordinate.
Usage of chesty in English
1
He was chesty, wore long sleeves and ran on his toes.
2
See how chesty it makes him-hewon't even look this way.
3
I don't feel very chesty about the way I've managed it.
4
My throat was parched and I was coughing; a really bad, chesty cough.
5
They felt a bit chesty at the thought of that B. S. or A.
6
I took that chesty stiff by the throat, and squeezed until his eyes popped.
7
Rhonda worked the register and counter, a shy, chesty, bleached-out woman in her thirties.
8
A stubborn chesty or dry cough can be so annoying.
9
It'll do 'em a heap of good to try a real chesty laugh occasionally.
10
Could I decline to drink with these two chesty shipmates?
11
As Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush get more testy, Donald Trump gets more chesty.
12
He'd like to show off his house at the beach and his chesty new wife.
13
All that chesty fulminating apparently functions as political Cialis.
14
I was afraid it made me look too chesty.
15
There was a chesty person with a wave of hair coming down over his forehead.
16
Paulsberg himself says that Grande is getting chesty lately.
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