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adjective

Arrogant adj.

Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; applied to persons. "Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate."

Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.

Synonyms: Magisterial; lordly; proud; assuming; overbearing; presumptuous; haughty. See Magisterial.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Arrogant" Quotes from Famous Books

... who move within ear-shot and jostle of their fellows on this actual earth. This is not a triumphant defence, no doubt; but I think it is a defence. And further, it has yet to be proved that De Quincey set down anything in malice. He called his literary idol, Wordsworth, "inhumanly arrogant." Does anybody—not being a Wordsworthian and therefore out of reach of reason—doubt that Wordsworth's arrogance was inhuman? He, not unprovoked by scant gratitude on Coleridge's part for very solid ...

— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury

... and bronzed, his nose a trifle prominent. He was a man far from handsome, and yet there was something of fascination and strength about him. He did not belong to the Horde. Yet he might have been the force behind it, contemptuous of the chuckling group of rough-visaged men, almost arrogant in his posture as he eyed the curtains ...

— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood

... all things had been arrogant, presumptuous, and self-satisfied, had methought erred ...

— The Suitors of Yvonne • Raphael Sabatini

... pulling the strings of parliament, before he could have managed the puppet show of power with such unfailing success. He must also have been dexterous in dealing with wayward tempers, while he had to manage the suspicious spirit, stubborn prejudices, and arrogant obstinacy of George II. It may be admitted that he had great assistance in the skill and subtlety of his brother Pelham; but there were so many occasions on which he must have trusted to himself alone, that it may well be doubted, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI. • Various

... wrinkled skin, Was cunningly crooked; his hair was white, On his bald forehead gleamed a bright And livid scar that Conn's great sire Had cloven when their swords struck fire— Burly and dauntless, full of might, Old Goll went humbly forth to fight With arrogant Conn ... It seemed The Red In greater might was from the dead, Restored in his fierce ...

— Elves and Heroes • Donald A. MacKenzie

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