Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.
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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 Occasionally, Mr. Clay was very imperious and displayed bad temper in debate.
2 The words were civil, but the tone was imperious in the extreme.
3 Hunger and fatigue were forgotten in the face of this imperious necessity.
4 This imperious girl belonged, of course, in the camp of the enemy.
5 He was neither haughty in his language, nor imperious in his demeanour.
1 Geoffrey said it gave him a cold, disdainful look and passed on.
2 I never knew an animal could be disdainful until I met Sasha.
3 This in a disdainful tone, and the white teeth clicked softly together.
4 The pursuing fighters came on, almost disdainful of their quarry's defensive efforts.
5 After that Nana pointed with disdainful action at the stands and continued:
1 The flatter the land grew, the broader did the lordly river become.
2 Wolfbrand, too, was seen in the strife bearing him in lordly wise.
3 But I like the fiction of a lordly ordering of the repast.
4 And on this wise would one of the lordly young men speak:
5 I'll make you rich in goods and give you the lordly robes.
1 An inquiry found police actions were overbearing and infringed on civil rights.
2 Parents should be overbearing either, but instead encourage children healthy online behaviour.
3 Many Latin American states see their northern neighbour as overbearing and exploitative.
4 There was also criticism of the overbearing corporate nature of the Games.
5 Many Latin American states see their northern neighbor as overbearing and exploitative.
1 Craig straightened in his seat; but not as before in attitude supercilious .
2 A moment later, he shoots me that supercilious look of the über-geeky.
3 Yet there was nothing sarcastic or supercilious in the way Ames spoke.
4 He was no longer the drawling, supercilious naval officer in resplendent uniform.
5 You can see him; and passed on with a somewhat supercilious air.
1 We've seen this swaggering , falsely confident boor at least once too often.
2 However, this week the posturing ended up on swaggering , if unintended, show.
3 He was swaggering - too friendly ; not my idea of a gentleman at all.
4 The new movie is jammed with fireball explosions and swaggering criminal badasses.
5 Celtic seem intent on staggering rather than swaggering across the finishing line.
1 Young men, chests puffed out, swagger around the cars like prideful lions.
2 I feared that I'd been prideful and mistaken to make him leave.
3 Cab drivers hailed him as a likely fare, to his prideful content.
4 Lowry regarded it as nonsense at best, prideful and blasphemous at worst.
5 I didn't have it; at that point I was still prideful .
1 ARE, the smart set getting a bit sniffy this week about Barbados?
2 But his own party has been just as sniffy about vocational education.
3 It's on his 1972 Christmas album, which normally gets sniffy write ups.
4 Some charity chiefs are actually quite sniffy about our public efforts.
5 He seemed a bit sniffy about it; maybe something was lost in translation.
1 Supported by Assyria, the kings of Israel had become powerful and haughty .
2 Really the proud and the haughty have no luck in this world.
3 Although still haughty , his voice was clearly chagrined at his narrow escape.
4 The gentleman looked at him sideways and answered in a haughty manner:
5 But Sina was haughty ; she slighted the sisters and treated them shamefully.
6 Yet was the spirit of the haughty daughter of the Caesars unbroken.
7 I have seen the young lady; she seems to be rather haughty .
8 He was very haughty with them but did not set them right.
9 All these petitions were rejected in the most haughty and peremptory manner.
10 He was neither haughty in his language, nor imperious in his demeanour.
11 With a haughty gesture she beckoned to the steward, saying in Italian:
12 But in this case the haughty Moslem had reckoned without his host.
13 Though her mien was in general haughty , she flattered Zenobia, and consummately.
14 At the same moment I heard the calm, haughty voice of Antinea:
15 Then the queen arose and with haughty step walked to the front.
16 And with a harrumph of a most haughty nature, she was gone.
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