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
Still, Patel warns Gen Z that confidence can quickly morph into arrogance.
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Schmitt suffers a nervous breakdown after his arrogance (and Webber’s long leash on the residency program) leads to him killing a podcaster on the operating table and these two break up again.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
In our own history, the failures of the Vietnam and Iraq wars owed less to insufficient brawn than to arrogance, cultural blindness, and the hubristic dismissal of diplomacy as weakness.
—Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Just as demented and tense, but drunk on the confidence of youth and the arrogance to believe that talent and charm is enough.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Schmitt suffers a nervous breakdown after his arrogance (and Webber’s long leash on the residency program) leads to him killing a podcaster on the operating table and these two break up again.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
In our own history, the failures of the Vietnam and Iraq wars owed less to insufficient brawn than to arrogance, cultural blindness, and the hubristic dismissal of diplomacy as weakness.
—Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Just as demented and tense, but drunk on the confidence of youth and the arrogance to believe that talent and charm is enough.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arrogance
Noun
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Europeans, including Las Casas initially, claimed superiority as Christians, as most of the Africans Europeans encountered were either Muslim or animist.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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Their innovation is to replace the demagogue’s roar with the bureaucrat’s moral superiority.—
Alexis Coe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Their remaining team-mates applauded the away enclosure, but many in that section were gesticulating their disdain.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Whores in the Attic gives us Gordon peeping up at three towering Asian succubi who regard her with disdain.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Her predecessor Magufuli had made life hell with his socialistic attitude.—
Danish Manzoor Bhat,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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Sources who witnessed this, speaking anonymously to protect their position like others consulted for this article, say there was a frank exchange between players, with particular criticism aimed at junior members of the squad over their attitude and application in the build-up.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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However, in the wrong hands, being silent can signal disdain and superciliousness.—
Matteo Atti,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Journalism that explains things clearly, without pretension or jargon.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Oct. 2025
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But she is best remembered for Keeping Up Appearances and her role as Hyacinth Bucket, a working-class woman with pretensions of social superiority.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
3 Oct. 2025
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Optimistic Miami Dolphins fans — assuming there are any left right now; forgive the presumptuousness — could find a way to be (relatively) encouraged coming out of Thursday night’s game.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Arrogance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arrogance. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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