Definition of Arrogant

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Arrogant

Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons.

Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.

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Arrogant Quotations

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
Mike Tyson

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de Beauvoir

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Gerald R. Ford

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
Henry Rollins

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
Tony Blair

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney J. Harris

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
Tony Campolo

Arrogant Translations

arrogant in Afrikaans is pretensieus
arrogant in Dutch is aanmatigend, arrogant
arrogant in French is arrogant
arrogant in Italian is arrogante, fierezza
arrogant in Latin is ferox, superbus, elatus
arrogant in Norwegian is hoven, hovmodig
arrogant in Portuguese is arrogante
arrogant in Spanish is altanero, arrogante

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