How To Use Arrogant In A Sentence

No entiendo por que le dicen arrogante a un periodista que dice la verdad a los oyentes, al pan pan y al vino vino eso es malo? Global Voices in English » Ecuador: The Departure of a Television Anchor
Iran has refused to discuss the allegations of weapons experiments for three years, saying they are based on "fabricated documents" provided by a "few arrogant countries," a term Iranian authorities often use to refer to the United States and its allies. NYT > Home Page
He exudes a sense of self-possession and hauteur that leads critics in the media and among his party to label him arrogant.
he was arrogant and occasionally callous
You showed an arrogant disregard for the safety of others on the road. Times, Sunday Times

To walk or behave in an arrogant manner. The Sun
August 22nd, 2009 9: 30 pm ET everytime a united states politician said somenthing hateful about another country i get bery concern because the u s a is not strong is it use to please stop being too arrogant!!! washington,. Schumer asks for U.N. condemnation of Libya
But, you wouldn't know by looking, because he's an abrasive, arrogant, off-kilter man trying to make his idiosyncratic way in academia.
And, he was arrogant about it besides with his platitudinal response to the outrage. Poll: National Race Tightens; Majority Says Obama Flip-Flopped On Key Issues
I'm pretty sure that writing for publication is one of the most arrogant things a human can do.
Two outbreaks of such arrogant nonsense occurred recently.
As long as she had known him he had always been a little arrogant in his best of times.
A fitful breeze stirred the pale foliage over her head, now and then showering her with pink petals from the lingering blossoms; from beneath her rose the damp sweet fragrance of soft earth and green grass, nearby a meadow-lark sang plaintively; somewhere a robin called arrogantly to his mate in the nest; from the valley, stretching below the sloping orchard, a violet mist lifted. Red-Robin
Why is it that Father would rather have a commander who is an arrogant braggart ---a fool who just appears to be leading his army? THE FAMILY
As a junior minister he was sometimes arrogant and aloof. Times, Sunday Times
Nobody, unless he's an arrogant ninny, would ever say ‘I am an intellectual.’
That is arrogant presumption to insist that some authors and works deserve to be declared meritorious as a matter of fairness.
The arrogant consultant is as inaccurate a stereotype as the busty nurse.
But gone are the days when overmighty Governments or greedy and arrogant ministers were its targets.
To the country, it would suggest that an arrogant elite was simply arranging the transfer of power.
Y entonces cuando intentamos sacarnos la camisa de ese complejo nos volvemos agresivos, arrogantes, violentos. Global Voices in English » Ecuador: The Passing of Writer Jorge Enrique Adoum
Humans are discussed as arrogant and blundering, an unflattering contrast to the innocent and compassionate chimps or gorillas.
Chris, you don’t seem arrogant and decentralisation is your watchword, so I guess I’ll give the benefit of the doubt. A conversation with Ville Vesterinen about standards and the open social web | FactoryCity
We don't care about the experts turning that two-bedroom shanty into a beautiful mansion, we want to see that arrogant caulker shoot a roofing nail into his foot and fall into a tree mulching machine.
I assume my reputation for arrogant presumption precedes me, so I'll be anything but brief.
Tip in Iceland and you will be seen as arrogant and patronising - and you might get hot soup in your lap.
I would relish the opportunity, as I placed my cross on the ballot paper, to think of wiping the permanently smug, self-satisfied smirk from his arrogant, squirrel-cheeked, toffee-nosed features.
I wish to take issue with the recent erroneous and arrogant statements from hydro developers who seek to devalue the true worth of the Monadhliath Mountains to the nation.
He has been the subject of much criticism, several recall attempts and diatribes because of what is described as arbitrary and arrogant behavior, peremptory statements and decisions.
Positive emotions produce kind, humble, rational and wise people. Negative emotions create unkind, arrogant, irrational and foolish people. Dr T.P.Chia
But there has been far more opposition in Hornsea, which has become the hotbed of opposition to a council some in the town see as out of touch and arrogant.
Like my colleagues, I don't speak in jargoned riddles -- or, as he parodied in his "Restoring History" episode, arrogantly pontificate through pipe-smoke, an authoritative blue blazer unsuccessfully concealing my fey pink shirt. Megan Doherty: My Walk With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man
She told the Evening Press the ‘arrogant attitude of a small group of councillors’ during ill-tempered meetings effectively forced her out, amid complaints about the way minutes were presented.
Barack Obama is "arrogant," "dishonest," and "radical," Fox News 'Sean Hannity announced during a single 10-second chunk of prime-time TV last week -- a casually hateful appraisal that didn't even raise eyebrows, simply because that kind of blanketed disdain for the new president has already become so commonplace. Eric Boehlert: Unhinged in 30 Days: The Right-Wing Media's Obama Era Implosion
Given that the DA will see his chances for re-election dwindle if he/she is perceived to be soft on a multiple felony slam-dunk conviction case against a spoiled, arrogant, crime-committing, room-temperature-IQ behemoth, I suspect the moron in question (e.g., the football player), after considerable wheeling and dealing by his zealous defense attorney -- who is just doing his job, will likely receive felony deferred adjudication from the appropriate court. No Prison for Plaxico?
Most of the westerners who met him, in Germany and America, took an instant dislike to what they saw as his arrogant and aloof personality.
I protest to the fact that anyone who has a problem with so much money gone to frivolity is deemed a terrorist by an arrogant politician who has no clue what it’s like tobe underprivileged. Why Protest the Olympics « Colleen Anderson
Meanwhile, over half of northerners claim that southerners are snobbish and arrogant and wear pinstripe suits. Times, Sunday Times
His arrogant courtroom displays of bravado ended when he reached the high-security jail. The Sun
Courage and insight, action, motion are flinty , arrogant, sharp, fight.
Maybe he wasn't really that arrogant, cocky egomaniac that he pretended to be.
To walk or behave in an arrogant manner. The Sun
That led to TMZ calling her a "ditz" and an "arrogant buffoon" for claiming that Sweden was a neutral country rather Switzerland during WWII. Hollyscoop Entertainment News
As we continue to fight this war almost alone, it is hard to estimate how costly that arrogant decision was.
He is a tremendous comic when he wants to be, as well as arrogant and deprecatory, with humor, when he feels that it is appropriate.
He was loud, vulgar and arrogant-quite simply the rudest man I've ever met!
Of course, if you do say you have X skills which your other candidates don't have, there's the possibility you come off as either arrogant or over-qualified, unless you can justify the skill for the job and it really is a rare skill..or they may turn out to have other candidates with the skill that you think no-one else at that interview has. Negotiate Your Salary More Effectively | Lifehacker Australia
It was all very well, these arrogant young men complaining about stitching and the cut of the breeches. Bomber
He was loud, vulgar and arrogant-quite simply the rudest man I've ever met!
She turned away from him arrogantly, gathering her thoughts for a moment.
He had the reputation of being a bully and arrogant but only his intolerance of sham made him feared.
Here there can be no explanations other than another instance of arrogant application by the United States in an exterritorial manner of its national American laws. ArmsControlWonk
I am not talking in this arrogant and pompous manner. Times, Sunday Times
I am not talking in this arrogant and pompous manner. Times, Sunday Times
Svenson was not normally given to such arrogant posturing, but he felt sure that the two were not men of violence — that indeed, they were educated and accustomed to clean cuffs and uncalloused hands … rather like himself, actually. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
Previous management were either too proud or too arrogant to accept the fact that their attempts at empire building had gone seriously awry.
It is an outrageous comment, which could only have come from someone who is more arrogant, snobbish and out of touch than the prince he is condemning.
He is inexperienced, arrogant, and his speaking leaves me thinking of a televangelist, which is not a compliment. Obama calls win 'very humbling'
To compensate for a lifelong stutter, Walton also overpronounces words, which gives his speech an arrogant twist.
Wow, you sure are an arrogant little stupid twirp. Think Progress » Karl Rove “now more worried,
Let's face it; the man, while personable and articulate is laboring under the arrogant and false assumption that because so many people like him personally, his inexperience and general clueless won't matter. Obama's approval rating remains steady, poll says
The Baptist Quarterly Review, for example, declared that employers had been "arrogant and provoking" and condemned their use of private military forces to smash strikes.
He stood up and gave a half-hearted shrug arrogantly.
He is arrogant, pompous, never misses a chance to show off his superiority, and drinks to excess.
Back then, the Pop Group were almost too much to take in: pretentious, arrogant, noisy, chaotic, violent to the point of implosive. The Pop Group: still blazing a trail that makes rock look conservative
Meanwhile, over half of northerners claim that southerners are snobbish and arrogant and wear pinstripe suits. Times, Sunday Times
He was too arrogant to notice anything beyond her refusal to talk.
Wildlife sanctuaries and national parks are cornerstones of bio-diversity conservation of the country and will remain so in future, unless danger of the arrogant ‘only for humans’ view.
Mures, Muscae, culices prae se, nits and flies compared to his inexorable and supercilious, eminent and arrogant worship: though indeed they be far before him. Anatomy of Melancholy
De mon air arrogant du a la fatigue deja pesante a cette heure je lui dit que c'n'est pas possible puisque d'une les categorie ca n'existent plus qu'en 2004 j'etais meme pas diagnostiké, que j'ai posé ma demande cotorep en decembre 2005 et que je viens seuement le mois dernier d'avoir ma reconnaissance!! Pinku-tk Diary Entry
We thought she was arrogant, whereas in fact she was just very shy.
I knew he had a reputation for being arrogant and aloof. The Sun
A young and arrogant Foreign Secretary got at cross purposes with old and crusty diplomats. Times, Sunday Times
It is the preference and importance given to the male child that makes him arrogant.
Jack sighed lustily, then shifted to move over her, one elbow planted on either side, his expression arrogantly commanding. A Lady of Expectations
Dead air would have been a better response: RIM ended up looking arrogant and even more out of touch.
Iran has refused to discuss the alleged weapons experiments for three years, saying they are based on "fabricated documents" provided by a "few arrogant countries" - a phrase authorities in Iran often use to refer to the United States and its allies. NYDN Rss
He maintained his arrogant swagger when he limped around the Press Centre but he looked haggard. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
A tingling feeling crept over his form, and an arrogant sneer then crept over his face.
But there are some parts of him that are just arrogant and petulant. Times, Sunday Times
Exilius, for Shame die, let Despair kill thee, thou deservest no less Punishment, for harbouring a Thought so arrogant, or rather impious, in daring to love one who ought only to be belov'd by a King or a Deity. Exilius
That arrogant, lazy smile swept across his stupid snobbish face as he halted, blocking my path.
A touch of arrogant confidence is part of the mix for competitive success.
So last night, over my Red Chicken Curry, I was verbally assailed by the diner to my left, who stated that cryonic freezing as a parachute option in the event of one's own death was ‘arrogant’.
He was a complete pain, rude, ignorant, arrogant and judgemental.
The problem is, of course, that as networks become less neutral our virtual household turns into a public space where police, advertisers and just about anyone strolls in arrogantly and takes a peak. AT&T and Other I.S.P.’s May Be Getting Ready to Filter - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Positive emotions produce kind, humble, rational and wise people. Negative emotions create unkind, arrogant, irrational and foolish people. Dr T.P.Chia
He was extremely arrogant and conceited. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
How arrogant, how impossibly stupid and just how ignorant are we?
Those for whom scientific integrity is secondary might reject the science faculty's position if they perceive it has been made in an unscholarly or arrogant manner.
He is not alone in saying that some American lawyers and accountants are conceited and arrogant about what they think is a superior system.
They can be quite arrogant - and they are extremely well paid. Times, Sunday Times
All the memories of those six months of deceit, of broken pledges, of unnecessary humiliations, of petty unpoliteness from a half-educated, half-bred, conceited, and arrogant people fell from us like a heavy knapsack. Notes of a War Correspondent
He abhorred the arrogant youngsters intruding on companies of whose staff and products they were wholly ignorant, brandishing maxims that threw hundreds out of work.
He is a proven liar, a cheat and a chancer, a man so arrogant that he thought he was above the law.
As they got older, Starkie says, he found Peter increasingly "dislikable" and "arrogant. The Devil and W.W.D.
These images unflinchingly confronted the gore, the naked terror, the arrogant incompetence, the pointless cruelty, the insane devastation of the military nightmare.
The paradox of Aquin as author is that out of impotence and disease he made masterpieces of flashing, lapidary prose, that as a failure he was able to write macabre, lewd, violent, hilarious and arrogant novels.
Woodward is not rude, arrogant or humourless, at least not all at the same time.
And, yet, Gandhi refused to wear an ochre loin-cloth or tour the country in an arrogant rath.
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The pity is that it probably was up until after 2000 and a blatantly dishonest, arrogantly self-focused, irresponsible and unconscionable sociopath was elected president and we see what that cost us. Political family names bring shame as well as fame
It was all very well, these arrogant young men complaining about stitching and the cut of the breeches. Bomber
I suppose it's too much to ask from a pompous, arrogant, and self-promoting tightass like Mr. Gingrich, but one of the many saving graces of America is that it is a diverse nation with a lot of different cultures, ideals, and belief systems. Religious Education
Bajarangadala�s sandal mafia leader Mahendrakumar shouting arrogantly after completing dacoity to take stringent action on us without any investigation. Some press releases of the CPI(Maoist) Karnataka State Committee
I nodded my head slowly… suddenly realizing that I was dealing with an arrogant conceited jerk!
It's hard to say what you'll find most breathtaking about the eternal city - the arrogant opulence of the Vatican or the timelessness of the Forum.
How can he claim Christians’ view of the world should be connected to the observed real world, and yet arrogantly, scandalously dismiss everything from radiometric isochron dating to thermoluminescence to stellar distances to the complete absence of non-radiogenic nuclides with short half-lives to ice cores to varves to tree rings. The Conscience of John Mark Reynolds Speaks... - The Panda's Thumb
France had been well and truly ambushed; the arrogant swagger of the autumn was but a distant memory. Times, Sunday Times
He was the antithesis of the archetypal young black man, particularly as those seen though pre-1994 racist eyes as being illiterate, arrogant, uncouth and untutored.
They should be made to pay for their contemptuous and arrogant behaviour.
Announcing his purchase, he is agonisingly torn between arrogant elation and remorseful commiseration.
Second, the arrogant overclass should be fined for causing a public nuisance due to a road having to be closed. Times, Sunday Times
He said that the press had misrepresented him as arrogant and bullying.
Blessed He has made me, wherever I may be; and He has enjoined me to pray, and to give the alms, so long as I live, and likewise to cherish my mother; He has not made me arrogant, unprosperous.
Schumacher is arrogant, triumphalist, sneering and a routine breaker of the rules.
One of the worst things you can be accused of today is being arrogant or offensive - even to animals.
For a man seen in some quarters as arrogant and aloof, the subject matter on the tour is bold and courageous. Times, Sunday Times
We have an arrogant and ignorant president with a brain addled by long use of alcohol and cocaine and other drugs. Think Progress » Rumsfeld Attacks Murtha: Says He Is Undermining Troops, Comforting Enemy
Far from being arrogant, today's doctors are diffident and afflicted by insecurity and self-doubt.
Woodward is not rude, arrogant or humourless, at least not all at the same time.
There is no government bureaucracy more arrogant, unaccountable, and authoritarian.
Even the most obvious and patently true observation therefore runs the risk of appearing condescending, arrogant or snobbish.
The notion that any club is owed a living by its league is utterly arrogant and preposterous.
Instead we've become a nation of arrogant know-it-alls.
To be aggressive in behaviour, arrogant in manners and harsh in language is a manifestation of savagery.
It pleased him in a strange way to see the shock on her arrogant, aquiline face.
Her tone in doing so was truculent, self-satisfied and arrogant.
It's essential for you not to let yourself appear arrogant and conceited because of this.
Maybe we come across as a bit arrogant. Times, Sunday Times
You showed an arrogant disregard for the safety of others on the road. Times, Sunday Times
She knew nothing about him… yet she had the guts to even describe him as an arrogant conceited brat.
As for the figure at the center of the story, Mr. Horwitz sees him too often as the grim Old Man of long-ago histories: bold, arrogant, sly, fanatical, murderous, muddle-headed and possibly insane. An Angry Prophet
WE HILLARY SUPPORTERS will not vote for Obama the fake and arrogant lier whow is playing with voter's dreams. Clinton holds big leads in West Virginia and Kentucky
Nor did he have an ingratiating, slimy, or arrogant manner.
There is no doubt that the Emperor and all his arrogant courtiers have decupled their incomes from the British stimulation applied to inferior soils, that but for us never would have been called into culture. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
his administration was arrogant and despotic
I have traded insults with the arrogant warriors of Sarmatia and sifted rumors of the distant hun. Hadrian's Wall.html
She has an authoritative manner that at times is almost arrogant.
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude.
It is the arrogant and totally unearned presumption of smug superiority that infuriated people.
And none of this sadly goes to the heart of the rotten culture in Haringey which is secretive, arrogant, rank-closing and abuses power. Baby P: The incompetence of Haringey Council was always the story
With the arrogant humility of an important young artist, he schooled himself in the most advanced art of his time - notably the work of Picasso and the cubists.
View Answers cute too talkative suberic arrogant postmodern kinda subversive kinda hegemonic obsessed with Buffy supposed to be working aggravating in an argument kittens (1) or cheese (10)? March 4th, 2003
As founding Peas, me, Apl, and Will had been tight since way back, and in walked this stranger from Hacienda Heights who fit in like some long-lost relative, and she was sexy without being catty, confident without being arrogant, strong without being over-domineering, and tomboyish without losing her femininity. Fallin’ Up
Nella was still angry at their patronising and arrogant behaviour towards her in those times.
Nella was still angry at their patronising and arrogant behaviour towards her in those times.
They may be regarded by their fellow pupils as arrogant and over-ambitious, and be subjected, possibly, to snide remarks and even bullying.
Iran, said Nackaerts, has refused to discuss alleged weapons experiments for three years, with Tehran saying they are based on "fabricated documents" provided by a "few arrogant countries" -- a phrase authorities in Iran often use to refer to the United States and its allies. Www.startribune.com
The old Method bruiser plays a former military man who blinded himself in a silly prank but remains an arrogant bully. Times, Sunday Times
The anti-hero this time around is Lord Zetta, a brazen, arrogant jerk of an overlord who inadvertently destroys his own netherworld and ends up getting trapped inside a book.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says popular demands for change will put an end to the oppression of what he called "arrogant powers. The Seattle Times
We found him arrogant and pompous. Times, Sunday Times
Their negligence and arrogant disregard for facts will put lives at risk.
Dumb though half the kids may be, they're just plodding meat fodder for a shockingly arrogant TV experiment, which exists for no apparent reason other than to demoralise any genuine teachers watching, potentially to the point of suicide, which really would cause a crisis in our educational system. Charlie Brooker: Jamie's Dream School – a youth club with David Starkey instead of a pool table
Is your heart proud and arrogant? Christianity Today
For Gerson, Obama is the arrogant, "neocortical president" who blames his problems on those idiot Americans who are too stupid to think clearly in these difficult times. Gerson is wrong on Obama's 'snobbery'
She saw him clearly - arrogant as the devil and cold as ice, a ready-made adversary.
Upwards of a thousand of the former are all over the trailer's web page, holding forth in that peculiar combination of arrogant certainty, indignant victimization, and pseudo-wised-up, cockily confident wrongness that marks the true Randroid. Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie)
Mures, Muscae, culices prae se, nits and flies compared to his inexorable and supercilious, eminent and arrogant worship: though indeed they be far before him. Anatomy of Melancholy
On the contrary, he grew presumptuous on success; and when he printed his performance, the dedication to the Earl of Norwich was directly levelled against the poet-laureate who termed it the “most arrogant, calumniatory, ill-mannered, and senseless preface he ever saw.” [ The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
They spell out what their intentions are rather than arrogantly assuming everyone trusts their judgment implicitly.
There, culture is seen as synonymous with the country's national identity, with its almost arrogant self-belief, and with an overweening pride in its own achievements.
I can already imagine what a total stuck up and arrogant idiot the prince is, just by looking at his lavish and loopy signature.
Most people outside Westminster will take a dim view of their arrogant disdain for democracy. The Sun
The trainee foxed the arrogant instructor with a knotty problem.
People thought he was arrogant, because he did not talk but really he was just shy. The Sun
The whole glib tone of this, the truly jingoistic and arrogant belligerence would be totally unacceptable.
He bludgeoned his way through arguments with arrogant bluster.
Many say that while he is known for his razor-sharp mind, the ponytailed 38-year-old lacks experience and alienates employees and customers with his arrogant style.
They're nice sometimes, but most of the time they just act like egoistic, arrogant rich kids.
Speakers aren't usually arrogant or insincere or slick on purpose. Christianity Today
New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote, "If the word oleaginous didn't exist, someone would have to invent it to describe Rahm Emanuel." called him "arrogant, rash and power hungry" and described how he once "sent a rotting fish to a former coworker with whom he had parted ways. Undefined
They did not fail because management was sleepy or arrogant.
Were we too proud or too arrogant to accept such a compromise? Times, Sunday Times
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit. Christopher Hitchens
We have, on the one hand, an arrogant, unqualified celebrity, and on the other, a burly guy who seems to have a problem with thwacking women around.
His arrogant courtroom displays of bravado ended when he reached the high-security jail. The Sun
You can find many faults with Sarah Palin; she is arrogant, self-centered, egotistic, grossly dishonest, can be pompous and obnoxious, and is literally sociopathic without any conscience, to name just an obvious few. King: 'Going Rogue' reignites Palin divide, even in her hometown
Arrogant, selfish motorists think nothing of leaving their vehicles in front of entrances and gateways.
Because thepolice were involved in the kidnapping disaster, and becausethe man in charge, Lawson, was subsequently imprisonedfor murder (a previous case of Karen's, though I don't think that this has been recorded in a book), and because he's bloody-minded and arrogant, Grant is keen to keep the police out of it this time round. April 2009
You will see here how condescending, arrogant, and patronizing these people can be.
Adrian struck me as arrogant, flippant, evasive, defensive and unremorseful.
In downtown black, by turns diffident, mischievous, impulsive, even arrogant, she's scrumptious, and the sheep aren't.
Being bold and presumptuous, which is rude or arrogant. CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2008
Her fingers positively itched with the overwhelming desire to see his arrogant face transformed by a slap.
At the moment refs are made to look arrogant or aloof through no fault of their own. The Sun
Has any country ever had a more arrogant, insolent, contemptuous leader than we have?
In reality, Fawzia was more shy than cold, and she certainly wasn't arrogant or haughty.
They were farouche, romantic characters riding arrogantly through the gardens on their massive elephants.
Others have called him arrogant, for flaunting his millionaire lifestyle.
As a junior minister he was sometimes arrogant and aloof. Times, Sunday Times
She is many things - venal, arrogant, authoritarian, ruthless - but she is no dummy.
The 'theophany' thus shows from nature that our claims to understand it all including the sufferings of any given human individual are arrogant and misguided. Archive 2007-09-01
They can also be willful, arrogant and stubborn.
They are nasty, arrogant people who are a law unto themselves. The Sun
He stared at me for a moment before an arrogant expression clouded his eyes.
But just as the finishing line came into view, the Basque boys began to falter, and the arrogant aristos of Madrid brought their skills to bear.
We have stories of Japanese vampires, of shape-shifters who live on spirit more than blood, of the lost and the arrogant and the brutal and the alien.
He's grown his hair, which fooled me before, but now I recognise his arrogant moue. LOVE YOU MADLY

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