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• Now, I'm a grey-haired git with a sense of arrogance born of surviving this long in RAIL.2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60. From the entry grey-haired
• “This is a truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness,” admits Johnson.2013 March 19, Adam Sherwin, quoting Boris Johnson, “‘Toffishness and twittishness’—Boris Johnson spills beans on Bullingdon Club and…. From the entry toffishness
• That’s because many employers fear that “along with overqualification comes arrogance,” he said.2009 October 11, Phyllis Korkki, “How a Good Candidate Clears the H.R. Hurdles”, in New York Times. From the entry overqualification
• Today is a real and democratic Palestinian wedding which challenges the arrogance of the Israeli occupational arrogance.2006 January 25, commentator in Al-Quds, quotee, “Press caution on Palestinian vote”, in BBC, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2016. From the entry democratic wedding
• This displays one side of the binary in all its Platonic-Descartesean arrogance.1999, Richard Bleiler, other contributors, Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth…. From the entry Descartesean
• "Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.1989, Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2011, →ISBN. From the entry ooze
• Last year, in an excess of arrogance, the dictatorship called for its doom in a snap election.1986 September 22, Corazon Aquino, “Speech during the Joint Session of the US Congress 1986”, in Anna Russell, So Here I Am: Speeches by…. From the entry snap election
• Too many millions of people, watching their telescreens, had seen his unpardonable arrogance.1973, Robert Theobald, Stephanie Mills, The failure of success: ecological values vs. economic myths. From the entry telescreen
• They do not appreciate human arrogance and hence the Bolis of Puri are slangful, loud and unabated barbs at human follies.2021 September 3, Charudutta Panigrahi, “The Intimacy Of Slangs”, in Odisha News, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025. From the entry slangful
• “She has developed an arrogance of power,” Mr.2018 January 24, Hannah Beech, Rick Gladstone, “Citing ‘Whitewash,’ Bill Richardson Quits Rohingya Post”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry whitewash
• Their arrogance is beginning to annoy me.2005, Stuart Hill, The Cry of the Icemark, The Chicken House, page 413. From the entry queenling
• Drink played a large part in Sinatra's ring-a-ding arrogance.2002, John Lahr, Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles, page 76. From the entry ring-a-ding
• "They were wimping along and I was accomplished," she asserts with some pride and a touch of arrogance.1994, Paul Lyons, Class of '66: Living in Suburban Middle America, page 156. From the entry wimp
• "Thatcher's style, her arrogance, her kind of assertiveness, have suddenly gone out of fashion," said Ralph Miliband. . . .1990 April 8, Sheila Rule, “The World: Quite Enough of Thatcher, or Just a Cyclical Setback?”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Jan 2012. From the entry bloom is off the rose
• It is indisputable that no area studies program is fully accepted by the academic community until it abandons its ethnic arrogance.1971, Gene. G. Gage, “Scandinavian Studies in America: The Social Sciences”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 43, number 4, →JSTOR, page 434. From the entry Scandophile
• With them the gods were confederated to break barbarian arrogance.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 89. From the entry confederate
• From the first the Russian had exhibited every trait of his true character—selfishness, boorishness, arrogance, cowardice, and lust.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 21, in The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 177. From the entry boorishness
• She was young and beautiful, with dark, oriental features, and a bearing which aimed at supremity of arrogance.1904, George Gissing, chapter 12, in Veranilda. From the entry supremity
• The AAA company Millie’s suing is run by a crooked mogul played by Taika Watiti, doing a gobsmackingly awful caricature of modern tech-bro arrogance.2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club. From the entry gobsmackingly
• I was miffed at the coach, not for his naivete of deafness, but for his arrogance, which converted his ignorance to stupidity.2003, Jim Brewington, Let There Be Light Please!, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry miffed
• Certainly both superpowers suffer from the imperial diseases once so noteworthy among the Romans, the British and the French: arrogance and myopia.2002, McDougal Littell, The Language of Literature, →ISBN. From the entry imperial disease
• It affects most congressmen and senators sooner or later: an atrophy of the sense of humility, a swelling of the glands of arrogance.1991, Tom Sehler, When Reason Sleeps, page 4. From the entry Potomac fever
• Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.1919, Rabindranath Tagore, Letter to M. K. Gandhi. From the entry unabashed
• I see the same arrogance and winner-takes-all attitude that are on display all around the country — and that are the antithesis of ethical, responsible, democratic government.2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023. From the entry winner-takes-all
• At one point, he said all the ills of the 20th century colonialism, two world wars and the cold war lay at the door of American arrogance.2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian. From the entry Putinesque
• Periodically they would convene impromptu two-minute hate sessions to compare notes on the arrogance and futility of philosophy and its claims on the territory of AI research.2012, Giuseppe Mantovani, Exploring Borders: Understanding Culture and Psychology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry two-minute hate
• Now to me the arrogance comes not from the creationists but from the Dawkinites, cos who would reckon we are beyond and above the elements we are made from.2006 June 17, The autist formerly known as, “Re: On the nature of religion...”, in alt.support.autism (Usenet). From the entry Dawkinite
• Their peculiar ideas, instead of being sympathetically drawn from them, have been ruthlessly and unappreciatively crushed by the superior knowledge and arrogance of the white race.1905. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Article by John Davis, Page 223. From the entry unappreciatively

Meaning of arrogance

1. noun The state of being arrogant; a type of extreme or foolish pride in which someone feels much superior to another.

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Questions about arrogance in a sentence

How do you use arrogance in a sentence?

Arrogance is used as a noun. For example: “Now, I'm a grey-haired git with a sense of arrogance born of surviving this long in RAIL.”

What is a short sentence with arrogance?

“Their arrogance is beginning to annoy me.”

What does arrogance mean?

Arrogance means the state of being arrogant; a type of extreme or foolish pride in which someone feels much superior to another.