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arrogance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arrogance \Ar"ro*gance\, n. [F., fr. L. arrogantia, fr. arrogans. See Arrogant.] The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
I hate not you for her proud arrogance.
--Shak.
Syn: Haughtiness; hauteur; assumption; lordliness; presumption; pride; disdain; insolence; conceit; conceitedness. See Haughtiness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The act or habit of arrogate, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
WordNet
n. overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors [syn: haughtiness, hauteur, highhandedness, lordliness]
Wikipedia
Arrogance is a rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In the 1970s and early 1980s it was one of the most popular local bands in the state.
Arrogance made a run of appearances at Raleigh's Village Subway, and holds the distinction of being the first group to play some chords at the Pier back in 1973. The group has released six full length albums in its history and an early non-LP single.
In 1983 the group entered a dormant period and the members did not perform together again until 2000, when the band reunited for a few select concerts and gigs in the Triangle area in celebration of Arrogance's 30th anniversary. The most notable was the "Reunion" concert at the North Carolina Museum of Art Amphitheatre in Raleigh in 2000. After large turnouts at the band's 2000 performances, Arrogance began performing again in local clubs, bars, and at special events, averaging about one show a year. The band's current lineup consists of Rod Abernethy, Don Dixon, Scott Davison, Robert Kirkland, and Marty Stout.
Arrogance or Arrogant may refer to:
- Arrogance (band), an American rock band active since the 1970s
- "Arrogance", a song by Prince from the Love Symbol Album
- Arrogant (EP), a 2014 EP by Medina
- HMS Arrogant
- Arrogant-class cruiser
Usage examples of "arrogance".
Was all his arrogance and affluence only an outward sign of an inner affliction?
His bold, Hanshire arrogance masked a consuming concern, that his plans would be balked despite the extreme measures taken.
Long ago you would have been a prima ballerina if your husband had shown less arrogance and more respect for those in authority.
I felt it my duty to say this, in order to crush the arrogance of men who are themselves at the mercy of fortune, and to claim the right of bestowing a benefit for slaves, in order that I may claim it also for sons.
His ex-wife had been manipulative, but she had an arrogance about her from the moment they had met.
Lo Manto looked at the thin man, waiting for his answer, sensing a mixture of arrogance and mistrust in both attitude and manner.
Spoiled outrageously, Morgan, who had inherited the reckless Markland courage, all the arrogance and belligerence of the clan, had early demonstrated brash young scorn for many of the principles of honor, trustworthiness, generosity and forbearance that went with it.
There could be no mistaking that Maskill Boice was one of them, with his riches and arrogance displayed for all to see.
With his highborn arrogance, meaty hands, and scarred lip, Welf looked remarkably like a fool to her, especially when he could barely bring himself to answer her just because she was common born.
The creation of robots was looked upon as the prime example of the overweening arrogance of humanity, of its attempt to take on, through misdirected science, the mantle of the divine.
It gave her gentle face the look that the peeping Nonic took to be its habitual arrogance.
A strong sense of outraged identity, what some might have called arrogance, furnished unexpected resources.
But I was leaning toward a conclusion that she had an overdetermined intellectual and professional arrogance that had been cemented by some monumental insecurity that she was struggling to tame as a lion tamer controls a big cat.
She rang the bell, sent for Miss Pease, and ordered her, in a style of the coldest arrogance, to put herself under my direction.
The reports Pressman had provided gave dry facts and figures about what the reptilian humanoids were capable of, but now, actually seeing them scan the terrain for any threat, seeing how they carried themselves with such arrogance and certainty, Danar knew.