Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.
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.
6 Roldan descended the stair as the bells rang out their peremptory summons.
7 And I think I may have been too peremptory with the children.
8 Not a word of disobedience, returns the officer, in a peremptory voice.
9 Never before in her whole life had she obeyed a peremptory command.
10 He accordingly issued a peremptory order to sequestrate every copy in Italy.
11 Grenville, however, sent her off to bed in the most peremptory manner.
12 He was peremptory in little questions, and great ones he left open.
13 Another knock at the door-a single peremptory knock this time-stoppedthe performance.
14 The summons which had taken her home had been a peremptory one.
15 The request is met at first by a polite but peremptory refusal.
16 The foreman made a peremptory movement of his head urging retreat-forTorrance.
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