imperious
IPA: ɪmpˈɪriʌs
adjective
- Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
- Urgent.
- (obsolete) Imperial or regal.
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Examples of "imperious" in Sentences
- Her attitude is imperious at times.
- Bravo, Arnoutf, for blocking the imperious renaming.
- Mrs. Prendergast looked across at Eva, her expression imperious.
- Jagger became unbearable over the years and reveals he also calls the imperious lead singer
- John Luther (Idris Elba aka the imperious Stringer Bell from The Wire) knows the identity of the killer from the beginning - he just has to prove it.
- She was again imperious, ran the dicussions like a martinet, bristled when one Smith student said she hadn't read the books, but had seen the MP movie.
- Our citizens should be free to express their political views without expecting Congress to act as a kind of imperious censor or arbiter of what is acceptable, intelligent or in good taste.
- Throughout his time at the company, its stock remained stagnant under what was described as his imperious leadership and "deficient strategy, operations, capital allocation, and governance."
- - Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards says in his new autobiography that Mick Jagger became unbearable over the years and reveals he also calls the imperious lead singer "Your Majesty" and "Brenda."
- At few points in U.S. history, prior to the end of the Cold War, have we adopted the kind of imperious attitude toward other nations that has characterized our international relations in the 21st century.
- Such a look is best described as imperious, although one less reserved than I but perhaps more potently metaphorical would say that she simply looked a hole through you, seeing beyond you as if you were not there at all.
- He chuckled and grinned with a fierce, savage sense of humour, while he recalled the imperious manner in which Mr. Ryfe had taken the initiative in their joint proceedings; as if they originated in his own invention, were ordered solely for his own convenience; and the tone of authority in which that gentleman had warned him not to be late.