adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a peremptory tone of voice
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He is peremptory even with a doorbell button.
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If he found her tone peremptory he gave no sign of it.
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Nabokov, who is exceedingly peremptory with all translators of Flaubert, renders this as whippet.
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Nevertheless, the peremptory dismissal of the book which established the modern discipline of macroeconomics is disconcerting.
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Then each side can exercise 23 peremptory challenges, excusing jurors without having to cite a cause.
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Then we get a peremptory phone call telling us we've got twenty-four hours to arrange a local arrest squad.
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Today, uniformed warders break that first ethereal stillness with their peremptory warnings about smoking and taking pictures.