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arrogantly

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ar·ro·gant  (r-gnt)
adj.
1. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others: an arrogant contempt for the weak. See Synonyms at proud.

[Middle English arrogaunt, from Old French, from Latin arrogns, arrogant-, present participle of arrogre, to arrogate; see arrogate.]

arro·gant·ly adv.
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Adv.1.arrogantly - in an arrogant manner; "in the old days she had been harsh and stiff ; afraid of her husband and yet arrogantly proud that she had a husband strong and fierce enough to make her afraid"
Translations
arrogantly [ˈærəgəntlɪ] ADVcon arrogancia, con prepotencia(esp LAm)
arrogantly [ˈærəgəntli] adv [claim] → avec arrogance
arrogantly
advarrogant; the group had rather arrogantly assumed themselves to be in commanddie Gruppe hatte arroganterweise or anmaßenderweise angenommen, dass sie das Kommando hätte
arrogantly [ˈærəgəntlɪ] advin modo arrogante


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If the observer had then specially directed his attention to one of the more humble and less brilliant of these stellar bodies, a star of the fourth class, that which is arrogantly called the Sun, all the phenomena to which the formation of the Universe is to be ascribed would have been successively fulfilled before his eyes.
"Monsieur," said he, "we are no longer on board the king's fleet, where, in virtue of your order, you spoke so arrogantly to me, just now.
He was too strongly possessed with passionate rebellion against this inherited blot which had been thrust on his knowledge to reflect at present whether he had not been too hard on Bulstrode--too arrogantly merciless towards a man of sixty, who was making efforts at retrieval when time had rendered them vain.
 
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