Arrogant

/ˈæɹəɡənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others..

Example Sentences

sound arrogant

an arrogant assumption

seem arrogant to others

He was too arrogant to admit his mistake.

Her arrogant attitude alienated the team.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you’ll call me.

Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known.

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• more arrogant
• most arrogant
• arrogaunt

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