Arrogant
['ærəg(ə)nt] or ['ærəɡənt]
Definition
(adj.) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; 'an arrogant official'; 'arrogant claims'; 'chesty as a peacock' .
Typed by Catherine--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.
Typist: Terrence
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Haughty, proud, supercilious, lordly, disdainful, contumelious, cavalier, overbearing, overweening, assuming, magisterial, dogmatic, imperious, important, swelling, blustering, big, high, lofty, stately, self-conceited, self-sufficient, UPPISH.
Typist: Molly
Examples
- She was chilled but arrogant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The news of these reverses caused a very great excitement in Germany and Austria, and the Tsar assumed a more arrogant attitude towards his ally. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I wish it might happen oftener, said the visitor in his easy arrogant way. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They have other kinds of insects, but it does not make them arrogant. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She too was the awful, arrogant queen of life, as if she were a queen bee on whom all the rest depended. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is from the festering humiliations of peoples that arrogant religious propagandas spring. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His face was very pleasant; he looked high but not arrogant, manly but not overbearing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mr. Malone's father termed himself a gentleman: he was poor and in debt, and besottedly arrogant; and his son was like him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Sir Arrogant is here, and I am glad to say, has been laid by the heels here. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And all the while Gudrun could see in Gerald an arrogant English contempt for a foreigner. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sir Arrogant Numskull is here, replied Mr. Boythorn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- How could I be arrogant, and you before me! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Lydgate's conceit was of the arrogant sort, never simpering, never impertinent, but massive in its claims and benevolently contemptuous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Molly