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Definition of Arrogant
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

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

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

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

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

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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