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US
/pɝˈɛmptɝi/
]
[ UK /pˈɛɹɪmptəɹˌi/ ]
[ UK /pˈɛɹɪmptəɹˌi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
an autocratic person
autocratic behavior
a rather aggressive and dominating character
managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way
a bossy way of ordering others around
a swaggering peremptory manner -
not allowing contradiction or refusal
spoke in peremptory tones
peremptory commands -
putting an end to all debate or action
a peremptory decree
How To Use peremptory In A Sentence
- Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. Act V. Scene I. Love’s Labour’s Lost
- We invite the Tribunal to make a peremptory order in respect of those matters.
- peremptory commands
- Still, despite its huge technological advances, its survival continues to rely on peremptory policing of the West Bank, on an ever-advancing shield of antimissile technology, and on the unswerving commitment of the U.S. The Economic Case for Supporting Israel
- Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. Love’s Labour ’s Lost
- The word peremptory means “precluding a right to debate;” the dismissals are called peremptory challenges because the opposing attorney normally cannot challenge them. The Volokh Conspiracy » Peremptory Challenges and Unanimous Juries:
- There was a morsel of pity outgleaming from Sophie's eyes, as she went to obey a somewhat peremptory call. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862
- Considering that you fill a responsible judicial office, and have to leave behind you a name unsullied by any blot or stain, I think you ought to lose no time in offering, as I believe you can truly do, a public and peremptory contradiction to the allegations in question. An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition
- Dr Barbara was able to switch from peremptory schoolmistress to doting mother in a way that always disarmed him. RUSHING TO PARADISE
- At its frequent rise and fall you would say that they swinge and belabour me after the manner of a probationer, posed and put to a peremptory trial in the examination of his sufficiency for the discharge of the learned duty of a graduate in some eminent degree in the college of the Sorbonists. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
