72 adjectives to describe arrogance

He had no intellectual arrogance, since he professed to know nothing himself, although he was conscious of his own intellectual superiority.

In order to punish her for her intolerable arrogance, Isabella, Francisco's daughter by his former wife, who is designed to wed Antonio, is introduced to a chimney-sweep, Guiliom, masquerading as a noble of high degree.

Speaking of the appearance of the Churches, so far as they do appear amidst American urban scenery, he says: "Looking for the most part no more established or seated than a stopped omnibus, they are reduced to the inveterate bourgeois level (that of private, accommodated pretensions merely), and fatally despoiled of the fine old ecclesiastical arrogance, ...

No! gentlemen; that would be a presumptuous arrogance, even if it were practical, which it is not.

Then let me once, in honour of our sex, Assume the boastful arrogance of man.

Whatever errors the book containsand the author's unconscious arrogance and dogmatism made him blind to themhis views were set forth with his accustomed vigor and eloquence, and in the honest belief that he was more than fundamentally right.

Here she tried to imitate the extraordinary arrogance of the German manner.

And I beg I may not be charged with excessive arrogance when I venture to say that they contain a considerable portion of original thinking.

Lord Chatham was brother-in-law to Mr. Grenville, to whom in the occasional arrogance and arbitrariness of his disposition he bore some resemblance; and one of the earliest acts of his administration, when coupled with the language which he held on the subject in the House of Lords, displayed that side of his character in a very conspicuous light.

An unbearable arrogance took possession of him.

But so much I hope, that no just man on earth can charge me with unbecoming arrogance, when here, on this soil of freedom, I kneel down and raise my prayer to God: "Almighty Father of Humanity, will thy merciful arm not raise up a power on earth to protect the law of nations when there are so many to violate it?"

When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar, nor the sturdy oak, nor the spreading plane; but in a bush, an humble, slender, abject shrub: as if he would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.

This was the more remarkable, as Henry's confident arrogance at the earlier trial in Paris had been so conspicuous.

Though he is far from the contemptible arrogance, or the impious licentiousness of Bolingbroke, yet he decides, too easily, upon questions out of the reach of human determination, with too little consideration of mortal weakness, and with too much vivacity for the necessary caution.

They were marked only by levity, mockery, sneers, and contemptuous arrogance; idlers were they, in quest of some new amusement.

And in Mr. Parker's case, at least, there was no alloy of conversational arrogance or impatience of opposition.

Once I had enjoyed luxury, but now the futility of all this luxurious cushioned arrogance, which at its best only corresponded with a railway director's dreams of paradise, seemed to me pathetic.

I detest arrogance; but there is some difference betwixt that and a just defence.

The disrespectful arrogance of the aspen, however, did not escape the notice of the Holy Child, who thereupon pronounced a curse against it, whereupon its leaves began to tremble, and have done so ever since: "Once as our Saviour walked with men below, His path of mercy through a forest lay; And mark how all the drooping branches show What homage best a silent tree may pay.

Now, there are certain prejudices and problems which appear to be rudely brushed away by the dogmatic arrogance of the principle stated.

He then ordered the standards to move, and led out the troops; thus rebuking the exorbitant arrogance of that nation, which at a time when, through intestine discord and sedition, it was unequal to the management of its own affairs, yet presumed to prescribe the bounds of peace and war to others.

whence this fantastical arrogance?

While formerly the commander-in-chief of the one year had reckoned it an honour to serve next year on the staff of his successor, the fact that the consular Cato took service as a military tribune under Tiberius Sempronius Longus (560) and Manius Glabrio (563;(47)), was now regarded as a demonstration against the new-fashioned arrogance.

"What fearful arrogance and presumption!

Too high, bright maid, thou rat'st exteriour grace: Not always do the fairest flow'rs diffuse The richest odours, nor the speckled shells Conceal the gem; let female arrogance Observe the feather'd wand'rers of the sky; With purple varied, and bedrop'd with gold, They prune the wing, and spread the glossy plumes, Ordain'd, like you, to flutter and to shine, And cheer the weary passenger with musick.

72 adjectives to describe  arrogance