(n.) The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(2) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
(3) There was a real risk of "judges arrogating to themselves greater power than they have at the moment."
(4) It’s the failure of an over-centralised prime ministerial office, too small to have real intellectual and research heft yet arrogant enough to overrule FCO advisers.
(5) On Wednesday she declared that if Sir Gideon had sent Chloe Smith unprotected on to Newsnight, then he was "cowardly as well as arrogant".
(6) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(7) Standing on stage in Korea, visibly nervous in front of the crowd, he said that “I will not be too comfortable in approaching the challenge, and I will not be too arrogant in my preparation.” But, he added, the company had had only five months to improve the system since its game against Fan Hui.
(8) It considers arrogance a key component in its make-up, and trusts the single-minded, as long as they conform to specific local desires.
(9) He has that belief and football arrogance and the best teams have that.” Balotelli claimed he made a mistake in returning to Italy from Manchester City in January 2013 and that his experience would help the young players in Rodgers’ team.
(10) Israel’s leader epitomizes what Senator J William Fulbright once called “the arrogance of power”.
(11) No sufferer of fools, he also found it difficult to put up with what he felt to be the arrogance of some colleagues.
(12) You have a secret hope but you like to keep it a secret because it sounds so arrogant to say I can win a medal and then don't get one."
(13) It was hard to imagine a more arrogant and self-serving statement, as the people of Tunisia were fighting for their freedom.
(14) For many of us, the attitude of the European commission, the ECB, certain European leaders, has been arrogant, dismissive and even anti-democratic,” he said.
(15) "The American people themselves have been put at risk by these actions that I believe are arrogant, misguided and ultimately not helpful in any way," he said.
(16) Without trying to sound arrogant, hopefully the awards will be an opportunity to talk to our contemporaries as peers, not just a crappy prison project, and say, 'This is what you can do'."
(17) Their policy decisions, including increases in the cost of living, the sale of TIO [Territory Insurance Office], savage cuts to health and education and general arrogance has burned public trust in their integrity and competence,” said Snowdon, who called the party “a joke” and said nobody could take the territory seriously now.
(18) It was the arrogance of power, written in huge letters.
(19) There was also a certain arrogance that comes from being part of an elite that “gets the numbers”, and an entrenched hierarchy meant that predictions weren’t properly scrutinised.
(20) To express guarded optimism about the Greek deal is not to condone the provocative arrogance of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis or the pointless vindictiveness of the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble .
Snobbery
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The same intrepid, almost naive, fascination with a world shrouded in the icy fog of snobbery, deference, and class-consciousness animated Sampson.
(2) This snobbery towards students from other universities is unacceptable.
(3) Despite the success of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, there was a whiff of snobbery.
(4) How apt that terms of bigotry should be riddled with class snobbery.
(5) A frilly thriller Washing-line snobbery: why can’t I hang my knickers out to dry?
(6) There is much about her that might provoke middle-class snobbery: her typically estuary disregard for grammar, for instance, all double negatives and misused verbs.
(7) My novel The Upstart is based on my experiences of the snobbery of worrying about saying the wrong thing.
(8) There is also some degree of de haut en bas snobbery from the mainly middle-class campaigners against the culturally working-class Evans.
(9) There is undeniably a touch of class snobbery in reactions to Cole's tattoo – a sense of disapproval of a certain aesthetic style or her decision to cover her whole backside.
(10) That said, comedy remains Nu Snobbery's most influential vehicle - and in 2003, its decisive arrival was proved by the most successful British comedy programme since The Office.
(11) In the early postwar decades there had been a definite if unspoken division, based on snobbery, between fine artists and industrial designers.
(12) Naturally enough, the New Snobbery is not restricted to the more frivolous end of our pop culture.
(13) A huge proportion of the humour in Fawlty Towers comes from Basil's snobbery or his mortal terror of Sybil.
(14) Other hazards of working on television which Richardson faced were the snobbery which still regarded TV as the poor relation of theatre and cinema.
(15) In last year's Christmas bestseller, Is It Me or Is Everything Shit?, Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur crystallised this sea change as "Nu snobbery": the belief that "the poor are a right laugh.
(16) Stephen Spender, in a 1982 piece for the New York Review of Books, a piece that was revealing only of Spender's snobbery, said that this was why Zweig was so popular at the time, because this was the kind of stuff adolescent girls got their kicks from.
(17) There are some who would say this is just snobbery.
(18) In 2010, passion and intelligence are too often equated with snobbery and elitism, often by people who don't have hugely cared-for record collections – which possibly includes shadow culture secretaries, former co-authors of Tory manifestos and chief executives in charge of media conglomerates.
(19) If social class snobbery prevents rugby union recognising good practice in rugby league, it should at least change the rules so that opponents stand off tackled players and allow their team mates to get the ball moving again unimpeded.
(20) Her decision to cross into Afghanistan without official permission amazed and appalled many foreign correspondents because she was not exactly familiar with the terrain; a leader in one newspaper referred to her 'heroic idiocy' (for her part, Ridley thought that this was just the snobbery of the foreign-correspondent hierarchy).