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Wealth came out of the curving furrows, and arrogance came too--arrogance built on green bushes and the acres of fleecy white.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARROGANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
arrogant
 a.  arising from feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  He had been drinking and wore the arrogant looking-for-a-fight expression that she knew from experience meant trouble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  They deserved killing, these insolent, ignorant, arrogant conquerors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  On the nights when he was at home, I could see his shadow on the blind, and it seemed to me an arrogant shadow.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
4  Nearly every one else in Packingtown did the same, however, for there was universal exultation over this triumph of popular government, this crushing defeat of an arrogant plutocrat by the power of the common people.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
5  Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  Tom's arrogant eyes roamed the crowd.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  You think it very arrogant in a poor priest to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
8  It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be humble.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
9  "Pistols, then, at eight o'clock, in the Bois de Vincennes," said Beauchamp, quite disconcerted, not knowing if he was dealing with an arrogant braggadocio or a supernatural being.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 88. The Insult.
10  And enough to give her a subtle sort of self-assurance, something blind and a little arrogant.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  It may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say it.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XI
12  , "the way I behaved must have seemed very arrogant to you."
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the law...
13  On the other hand, no prosperity ever made them arrogant.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI.
14  Wealth came out of the curving furrows, and arrogance came too--arrogance built on green bushes and the acres of fleecy white.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  Why, all we have is cotton and slaves and arrogance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  It's arrogant of you to assume you'll win every time.
2  I watched the interview and felt he came over as quite arrogant.
3  He said that the press had misrepresented him as arrogant and bullying.
4  He often speaks in an arrogant tone, which doesn't encourage others to discuss with him.
5  The nation would seethe with discontent as the noblemen continue their arrogant ways.
6  His treatment of his secretary was a blatant example of managerial arrogance.
7  Consumer watchdogs have accused banks of "appalling arrogance" in the way they treat customers.
8  Her arrogance has disenchanted many of her former admirers.
9  The boast of arrogance soon turns to shame.
10  You must realize that it is arrogance that has cramped your progress.
11  I also think his arrogance is also turning people off.
12  Lynn watch in astonishments as her coworkers arrogate the credit for her brilliant work in the project.