Crossword clues for arrogant
arrogant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arrogant \Ar"ro*gant\, a. [F. arrogant, L. arrogans, p. pr. of arrogare. See Arrogate.]
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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.
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Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.
Syn: Magisterial; lordly; proud; assuming; overbearing; presumptuous; haughty. See Magisterial.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French arrogant (14c.), from Latin arrogantem (nominative arrogans) "assuming, overbearing, insolent," present participle of arrogare (see arrogance). Related: Arrogantly.
Wiktionary
a. Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt for others.
WordNet
adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock" [syn: chesty, self-important]
Wikipedia
Arrogant is the first extended play released by Danish- Chilean singer Medina. It was released in Denmark on 3 February 2014 on iTunes through Labelmade / A:larm. The extended play was released as a surprise release, which means it was released without any announcements, similar to Beyoncé's eponymous album.
Usage examples of "arrogant".
She was one of those mysterious people who always knew who and what was In and Out before anybody else did, and she could be merciless with overconfident arrivistes and insufficiently arrogant artists.
Granted, the Autocrator had been more arrogant than prudent in the manner of his rejection.
He continued his conversation as the Land Rover stopped, a blandly arrogant eye directed toward the intruders.
There sailed a grand brontosaur, like an arrogant Titanic, headed for unseen collisions with flesh, time, weather, and bergs headed south overland in an Age of Ice.
Before the arrival of Gulliver, the Houyhnhnms, ideal but also funny, arrogant, and naive, were prelapsarian.
Blade put the gray into an arrogant canter and headed straight for the Mong lines and the waiting Khad.
As it should have been, and would have been, except for that arrogant, insufferable, criminal bureaucrat at FDA I It was sheer bad luck that the new drug application for Montayne had drawn Dr.
Brown had certainly done so, and her latest favorite, Abdul Karim, who called himself the Munshi, was almost as arrogant and unpopular.
No matter how arrogant or overbearing his demand was that she marry, then divorce him, she would never stop loving him.
Added to that complicated set of circumstances was the fact that Jonathan was overbearing, arrogant, and much too sure of his ability to manipulate her for Regina to feel comfortable with the relationship.
I could the outward demeanor of the most arrogant man I had known, a merchant from Karsten who had infuriated Uncle Parand with his haughty airs.
John Hopkins and his partner Geoffrey Scruby, supposedly the two toughest kids in my class, I tried to avoid the fight they demanded, mostly because I was arrogant enough to believe that my status as future world welterweight champion made it inappropriate for me to be a street fighter.
Tall Dyvim Slorm was by his side, his golden shirt loose on his slim body and his manner confident, arrogant.
A tall and sensual-looking Jewess, she was seated on a pile of baggage, smoking a cigarette, her long legs indolently crossed: indifferently, with smouldering and arrogant glances, she surveyed the crowd of passengers on the tender.
Big ones, stripy ones, black and white ones, bold, furtive, arrogant, laid-back ones, all of them with their big saucy balls.