ARROGANT


Meaning of ARROGANT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

so

How could he be so arrogant ?

Don't be so arrogant , Justine!

But television was so arrogant that none of them even knew that I had a previous reputation.

too

I would have been too arrogant to look.

Maybe he was too arrogant to care.

very

It was really believing our own notices and becoming very arrogant .

But all I got from them was very arrogant letters.

I was dabbling with drugs and doing plenty of drugs and also I'd become very arrogant .

I found most of the people there arrogant , very arrogant, and I mean professors and students.

■ NOUN

man

She'd met arrogant men before, but never one quite like him.

He is the rudest, most arrogant man I've ever met.

He was an arrogant man who thought he had only to crook his finger and she would come running.

They are the eyes of a proud, ruthless and arrogant man .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an arrogant smile

an arrogant , selfish man

his arrogant disregard for other people's opinions

You are a rude and arrogant young man.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He was impertinent, rude and arrogant .

Insolent words uttered in the arrogant consciousness of power were always heard in heaven and always punished.

She also is nicely complicated: at times arrogant , stubborn, wrong-headed and voyeuristic.

They were arrogant but, by and large, they were decent, honest people.

Throughout the trial, the defendants were off-hand and arrogant .

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.