| 单词 | arrogance |
| 释义 | arrogance (once / 1281 pages) n Arrogance is overbearing pride or haughtiness. If your friends are constantly complaining about your arrogance, you might want to lose the haughty attitude and try to be more humble. Arrogance comes from the Latin arrogans which means overbearing. If you show arrogance, your pride is overbearing and offensive to others. Arrogance can also be attributed to corporations who fail to take consumer opinion into account and to nations that seem to do whatever they want with no regard for other countries. WORD FAMILYarrogance: arrogances+/arrogant: arrogance, arroganter, arrogantly USAGE EXAMPLESIn fact, beauty often whips up some unattractive quirks, such as arrogance and over-confidence. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) Friday afternoon, I was texting with a friend from California who derided the “arrogance” Sherman showed in his most recent postgame interview. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) “Flint was a casualty of arrogance, disdain and a failure of management.” Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) n overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors Syn|Hypo|Hyper haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness condescension, disdainfulness, superciliousness the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior contemptuousnessthe manifestation of scorn and contempt hubrisoverbearing pride or presumption domineeringness, imperiousness, overbearingnessthe trait of being imperious and overbearing superioritydisplaying a sense of being better than others snobbery, snobbishness, snobbismthe trait of condescending to those of lower social status clannishness, cliquishness, exclusivenesstendency to associate with only a select group pride, superbia unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
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