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
Payton approached the quarterback vacancy with arrogance.
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Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2025
How narcissism and exclusion fuel one another Narcissists often display disruptive behaviors in social settings, such as aggression or arrogance, that increase the likelihood of others distancing themselves over time.
—Julianna Bragg, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
This false arrogance drives so much elite failure over the last 40 years.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
László has this aura around him and the confidence of a genius and the arrogance of a genius.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
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Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2025
How narcissism and exclusion fuel one another Narcissists often display disruptive behaviors in social settings, such as aggression or arrogance, that increase the likelihood of others distancing themselves over time.
—Julianna Bragg, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
This false arrogance drives so much elite failure over the last 40 years.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
László has this aura around him and the confidence of a genius and the arrogance of a genius.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for arrogance
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arrogance
Noun
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This condition is what philosopher Charles Mills, speaking of the American context, labeled epistemological ignorance—a deliberate unknowing, an insistence on the myth of white superiority, of white exceptionalism.—
Christine Winter,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2025
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And so Tyla’s comments were also taken as an insinuation of superiority over Black people.—
Funmi Fetto,
Vogue,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But, then, genuine misanthropic disdain is part of Verhoeven's tool kit.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Musk has long voiced disdain for Biden and notably was not invited to the administration's electric vehicle summit in 2021.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The volatility the markets just experienced oftentimes marks a turn in investor attitudes.—
Robert Barone,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Such attitudes disregard the hard realities of life in the United States for certain Americans.—
K. Ward Cummings,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Rabelais points out that there are oddities in the world that cannot fit into any classification scheme, more things in our heaven and earth than are dreamt of in either the medieval pretensions of the summa or the ambitious early modern bibliographic machines.—
Brendan Fitzgerald,
Longreads,
27 Dec. 2024
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So often a potential title decider, the only team here that have title pretensions are Liverpool.—
Andy Jones,
The Athletic,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Arrogance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arrogance. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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