as in superiority
an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims
in his arrogance the president of the club made all the arrangements for the annual banquet without consulting the members
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Recent Examples of arrogance
With a certain liberal arrogance, many took a racist fabrication from Donald Trump at last week’s Presidential debate to be the evening’s crowning gaffe.
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Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
That arrogance was only ever seen on the pitch, too.
—Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
Dastmalchian gets to play it all — disbelief, arrogance, grieving, terrified — sometimes in the same moment.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
These things are a big investment of time and to have not one, but two of them that might otherwise have had a reasonable expectation of success — probably arrogance on my part — but still, many times an author who gets published once can get published a second time.
—Choire Sicha, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
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Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
That arrogance was only ever seen on the pitch, too.
—Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
Dastmalchian gets to play it all — disbelief, arrogance, grieving, terrified — sometimes in the same moment.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
These things are a big investment of time and to have not one, but two of them that might otherwise have had a reasonable expectation of success — probably arrogance on my part — but still, many times an author who gets published once can get published a second time.
—Choire Sicha, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arrogance
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The wholesale engulfing of the myth of white superiority is what makes that kind of violence.Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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The film explores how the extremists combine violence, threatened or actual, with sophisticated social media campaigns to bring their pseudoscientific claims of racial superiority to the mainstream.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
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Too many liberals forgot this, which explains how a figure like Trump, with his boisterous and transgressive disdain for liberal pieties, could be reelected to the presidency.Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The southpaw hasn't voiced any disdain for the franchise and the Braves value him tremendously.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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At the press conference Thursday, Humphrey said Dean’s hard work and positive attitude during his desk duty also weighed on his discipline decision.Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
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His positive attitude is contagious and students LOVE having him in class.Rebecca Loroff, Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2024
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The upshot: a $190-million (some reports place the budget closer to $200 million) jukebox musical with seeming art-house pretensions whose odds of justifying its cost now seem remote.Chris Lee, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
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The past month in Lebanon, like the past year in Gaza, has demonstrated that Israel’s leaders have no idealistic pretensions about establishing a new political order in Lebanon or in the Strip.Mohanad Hage Ali, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Arrogance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arrogance. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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