Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.
Most powerful or important or influential.
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Examples for "peremptory "
Examples for "peremptory "
1 He bowed low in peremptory fashion and hurried off in a rush.
2 The officer was peremptory , but the bergantin was most innocent in appearance.
3 All these petitions were rejected in the most haughty and peremptory manner.
4 The Queen again bade me go to bed in a peremptory tone.
5 Please go and speak to Pearl, she added in a peremptory tone.
1 It rewards autocratic regimes while also strengthening institutions in more democratic ones.
2 The president has become more autocratic and thinks he has absolute power.
3 And we are surprised at the Custodians' autocratic handling of this matter.
4 There was an almost misanthropic vein in the autocratic land-owner and iron-master.
5 The answer was covered by the autocratic clang on the engine-room gong.
1 Charmingly bossy service from the lady of the house, and great value.
2 I am formulating my next question, when she declares: Am I bossy ?
3 At last she jumped up and ran off to see the bossy .
4 Unfortunately, her nearest neighbour dismisses her as too plain and too bossy .
5 Yes, but he didn't have to be so all-fired bossy about it.
1 He loved this place, a magisterial old house in the Garden District.
2 Her whole bearing consisted of volleys of abuse, closed by magisterial interrogations.
3 Ricky supposed that he had to envy that too, the magisterial appearance.
4 And didn't SHE put me down with one of her magisterial sentences?
5 His pals apparently still regard that brazen mantra as evidence of magisterial leadership.
1 We deal in matters too great for even those high - and - mighty Droods.
2 I know a rotten apple in the high - and - mighty O'Rourke family tree is unthinkable.
3 Lachlan McGillivray had always been too high - and - mighty for his own good.
4 We can't afford them high - and - mighty prices at Kroger's and the A&P like you.
5 Of course, the high - and - mighty Carlisles would call in the feds.
Used of a height or viewpoint.
1 By contrast, renewable energy is dominating new investment in power generation worldwide.
2 But dominating Wolf's message was the budgetary crisis escalated by political gridlock.
3 This theory ended up dominating the investigative work of the following days.
4 But despite dominating , particularly in the second half, Chelsea's chances remained limited.
5 Equally, the Shias had to be prevented from dominating the new state.
6 The plight of first home buyers is dominating the housing affordability debate.
7 Those things are dominating and so it's still happy times for consumers.
8 The Governor refuses to accept my offer of a dominating National Guard.
9 Liverpool now on the back foot after dominating the first 25 minutes.
10 They have accused Islamists and their allies of dominating parliament and government.
11 I was flying on cloud nine after dominating the sport all year.
12 And dominating the scene is the imposing figure of the Grand Monarque.
13 The greatest dominating people of history have their origin in arid countries.
14 So the way you say I am dominating , I am not dominating .
15 AUSTRALIA's swimmers took centre stage on Friday night, dominating in the pool.
16 As the jinricksha rattles on, the hills dominating the road grow higher.
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