arrogantly
- adverb
- /ˈɛr.ə.ɡənt.li/
- We cannot effectively communicate our belief in science if we arrogantly ignore the role that science plays in people's everyday lives.
- arrogantly assumes
People may brag or even behave arrogantly because they're socially anxious.
- People may brag or even behave arrogantly because they're socially anxious.
- So we went down to the club and I watched the comics and, you know, arrogantly, I thought, oh, hell, I'm so much funnier than any of them.
- If if you come at things too arrogantly, then I think you'll have a stillborn collaboration.
- Plagued by a dark psychosis that no one detected, the young scholars prodigies arrogantly explain their heartless plan.
- Because you said, you assumed, arrogantly I might add, Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump.
Examples
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The United States can continue to set an example, not arrogantly, but cooperatively, through strong leadership and partnership.
Academic text (2004) -
He spoke arrogantly, believing he was the smartest person in the room.
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I am the future of this great nation, which you, Father, so arrogantly saved this world for.
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Many of them are at least as wonderful as those we're so arrogantly proud of.
Fiction book (1990) -
We should not arrogantly assume that the West can mold China as it pleases.
Academic text (1999) -
Because you said, you assumed, arrogantly I might add, Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump.
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My father rather arrogantly states that he began my education after Beldaran's wedding, but that's hardly accurate.
Fiction book (1999) -
People may brag or even behave arrogantly because they're socially anxious.
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Scarlett held her head arrogantly high as a liveried attendant helped her from the carriage to the sidewalk.
Fiction book (1991) -
Both my parents were Jewish—my mother arrogantly Ashkenazi, my father aggressively Sephardic.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
In a proud way that shows you think you are better than others
In a way that shows someone thinks they are better or smarter than other people
Behave in a proud, unfriendly way to show you feel better than others
In a proud, showy way to seem more important than others
Acting as if you are better than other people
In a way that tries to seem more important or special than it is
In a way that shows too much confidence and crosses other people's limits
In a showy, exaggerated way to impress people
In a way that shows you think you are better than others
In a proud way that shows off your achievements
In a way that shows someone thinks they are better than other people
In a way that shows you feel better than others
Acting as if you are better than other people
To act in a very proud way that ignores other people
In a way that shows too much pride in yourself
In a way that shows someone thinks they are better than others
In a way that shows you feel better than other people
In a proud way that shows you think you are better than others
In a showy, proud way using big, fancy words
In a way that shows you think you are better than others
In a proud, showy way to get attention
In a proud way that shows you want others to admire you
In a way that shows too much pride in what you have done or how you look
Talking about things you did to show you are proud
Behaving as if you are better than other people
Antonyms
How Arrogant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Arrogantly comes from the Latin word arrogare, which means 'to claim for oneself', and from the root rog- meaning 'to ask', as in interrogate. So to act arrogantly is to behave as if you can take praise or power without asking, which explains the modern meaning.