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Meanings of arrogant in inglês

Having extreme self-confidence and overbearing pride.

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Having too high an opinion of oneself; showing superiority.

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Examples for "haughty"
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Supported by Assyria, the kings of Israel had become powerful and haughty.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
2
Really the proud and the haughty have no luck in this world.
Impressions and Comments
3
Although still haughty, his voice was clearly chagrined at his narrow escape.
The adventures of button
4
The gentleman looked at him sideways and answered in a haughty manner:
Original Short Stories — Volume 09
5
But Sina was haughty; she slighted the sisters and treated them shamefully.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
Usage of arrogant in inglês
1
President Grant in the beginning undertook to break down this arrogant claim.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
2
He was of a feeble character, arrogant in prosperity, faint-hearted in adversity.
The History of Rome, Book V / The Establishment of the Military ...
3
As the Mormons increased in power, they became more self-sufficient and arrogant.
The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
4
As time went on Germany and Austria became more and more arrogant.
History of the World War, Vol. 3
5
The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.
Marriage à la mode
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The success of so daring a venture made the Scottish reivers arrogant.
Stories of the Border Marches
7
The monastic houses fall often under the arrogant rule of lay abbats.
The Church and the Barbarians / Being an Outline of the History ...
8
Such dictum gives the lie in arrogant fashion, to healthful human experience.
Architecture and Democracy
9
Both countries seemed to be arrogant and fortified within their cultural expressions.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
10
The nobles were heartless, proud, arrogant and cruel to the last degree.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
11
They asserted that many of the managers had become arrogant and corrupt.
The United States Since the Civil War
12
Without warning the span was sundered by an arrogant arm of black.
A Daughter of the Snows
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Would Louis be in danger from the bullets of the arrogant Stair?
Patsy
14
That false, arrogant and wayward politician was to command the Channel Fleet.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
15
His arrogant and piercing gaze was sweeping him from head to foot.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
16
He was a Kelmscott, too, as arrogant as the best of them.
What's Bred in the Bone
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