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Another word for arrogance

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arrogance

n.

pride, self-importance, presumption, hauteur (French), disdain, hubris, swagger, pomposity, contemptuousness, reserve, overbearingness, domineeringness, insolence, priggishness, smugness, vanity, overconfidence, air of superiority, braggadocio, superciliousness, audacity, haughtiness, aloofness, display, ostentation, vainglory, vaingloriousness, egotism, ego, conceit, self-love, airs, pretension, pretense, snobbishness, patronization, nerve*, high-and-mightiness*, cheek*, stiff neck*, snootiness*, uppityness*, high horse*.

Antonyms modesty*, humility, shyness.

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Another word for arrogance

noun

The quality of being arrogant:

haughtiness, hauteur, insolence, loftiness, lordliness, overbearingness, presumption, pride, pridefulness, proudness, superciliousness, superiority. See attitude

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The edge of arrogance surprised her.
His uncle, who appears to have " taken his zeal for ambition," wrote him a severe letter, taking him to task for arrogance and pride, qualities which Bacon vehemently disclaimed.
When the guardsman rose, the arrogance was gone from his face, replaced by anger.
But his arrogance gave much offence.
Jeffrey naturally declined to appoint a man who, in spite of some mathematical knowledge, had no special qualification, and administered a general lecture upon Carlyle's arrogance and eccentricity which left a permanent sense of injury.

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