arrogance

It is this outsider status or perhaps a certain strain of arrogance that explains his insistence on pushing forward with the project where others may have balked.

The pontiff blasts the selfishness, arrogance and detachment of the cardinals in Rome.

In the fall, I received a Rhodes Scholarship—I approached arrogance.

Doar agreed that this was a case about “arrogance,” but not of the 1,600 voters now disenfranchised, or of the Justice Department.

People who know him speak of a relaxed and charming man, remarkably free of arrogance or unpleasantness.

He developed a reputation for principled independence that others sometimes saw as arrogance.

His whilom arrogance was all fallen from him; he wore instead an air of extreme contrition.

The ignorance of these ladies, their pride, their arrogance, excited in Jane's mind deep contempt.

His cronies at the Pandemonium accused him of assuming an air of habitual arrogance.

It is arrogance to think of launching out to serve the whole of India when I am hardly able to serve even my own family.

It came to Lowell in a flash that Bill's arrogance sprang from something deeper than mere conceit or drunkenness.