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Arrogance Artfulness (See CUNNING.) amber traditional symbol of arrogance. [Gem Symbolism: Jobes, 81] presumptuously challenges Athena to weaving contest; transformed into spider. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 69] arrogant, vulgar woman. [Br. Lit.: Pride and Prejudice]
rich and powerful man drives away friends by use of power. [Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 149] class-conscious and contemptuous leader. [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus] proud of superior station. [Br. Lit.: Pride and Prejudice] overbearing comic strip character with a chip on his shoulder. [Comics: Horn, 216–217] his aristocratic haughtiness a trademark. [Br. Lit.: Our American Cousin] has had his wife murdered for too little appreciation of her place. [Br. Poetry: Browning My Last Duchess in Magill IV, 247] arbitrarily gives his own meanings to words, and tolerates no objections. [Br. Lit.: Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass] rebel archangel who challenged God’s supremacy. [Christian Hagiog.: Collier’s, XII, 143] know-it-all cartoon character gives advice to other children. [Comics: “Peanuts” in Horn, 543] for boasting of superiority, her children are killed. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 224; Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses] traditional symbol of arrogance. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177] indicates haughtiness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177] king of Judah assumed priests’ function of burning incense; punished with leprosy. [O.T.: II Chronicles 26:16–19] Caesar’s dispatch describing his subjugation of Pharnaces (47 B.C.). [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 923] magisterial mother of Coriolanus; molds his character. [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus] traditional symbol of arrogance. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 291] traditional symbol of arrogant contempt. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The fox, full of all kinds of arrogance, looked at the cat from head to foot, and for a long time did not know whether he would give any answer or not. There's nothing more subservient than an arrogant man when his arrogance has once been broken in some particular instance. The girl thought the arrogance and granite-heartedness of the magnate of the play was very accurately drawn. |
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