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It can be used to describe an attitude of superiority or self-importance, often in a negative context. Example: "His arrogance made it difficult for others to work with him, as he often dismissed their ideas without consideration."
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arrogance
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The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
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He admitted that when the virus first struck "there was probably a lack of knowledge and there was a certain degree of arrogance", but he said he believed lessons were being learned.
"Zanu-PF simply doesn't care and now that they are in control arrogance is going to increase.
Much of this may be the arrogance of power, and it will probably take opposition for the Labour party to finally focus online.
There is plenty of evidence already of the increasing disjoint between players and referees, and also of a certain arrogance among the current generation of rather puffed-up and self-regarding professional referees.
There is no arrogance, no show, and every word is convincing.
That appalling arrogance was bolstered by an even more sinister knowledge.
Both betray a supreme arrogance toward a Latin American neighbor of the US, a delusional self-confidence, and a tendency to rely on information from the local ruling class, its managers and its politicians.
"Even by her own megalomaniac standards, Nicola Sturgeon's language on the day of her manifesto launch is breathtaking in its arrogance".
In Algeria the daily newspaper, Liberté, made the point that, in her arrogance, Michèle Alliot-Marie "has apparently no fear of awakening the memories of peoples who have already known historically the military savoir-faire of France".
I wish it were not so, but it is, and when Peter Carey asks if it's even a free speech issue, and calls PEN self-righteous for taking it up, and then attacks the entire nation of France for its arrogance; and when Teju Cole says that Israel is the cause of anti-semitism; then you have some very unfortunate bedfellows indeed.
David Cameron has been accused of cowardice and the broadcasters of "bullying" and "sheer arrogance".
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