How to Use arrogant in a Sentence

arrogant

adjective

• She's first in her class, but she's not arrogant about it.
• Except the person who is youthfully arrogant or naive or innocent.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 29 June 2017
• The future is a half-dozen stops ahead, in the magnificent, arrogant skyline of midtown Manhattan.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2017
• Opposition politicians called her arrogant; one group of protesters near Dresden heckled her with abuse.
  — Kati Marton, Vogue, 18 July 2017
• Mohammed bin Salman will soon inherit one of the world's toughest jobs, one in which only an arrogant, ambitious man with an audacious plan is likely to succeed.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 29 June 2017
• McEnroe is likely too arrogant and oblivious to consider how his stance upholds a long tradition of white, male-centric supremacy.
  — Maiysha Kai, The Root, 29 June 2017
• This pale-faced, bleach blonde hair, arrogant looking, monogram shirt wearing manager with two big, rough cowboys with black boots, black trunks, black vests, black gloves, black cowboy hats, and black mustaches.
  — Jim Varsallone, miamiherald, 18 Sep. 2017
• Commenters on social media mocked the governor as selfish and arrogant and cracked jokes about the sight of the heavyset Christie in a beach chair in sandals, shorts and a T-shirt.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2017
• That statement hints at a rather arrogant perspective, where the Democratic Party takes certain voting factions for granted.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
• No matter what, not too far in the future, a standard race in which 33 cars burn fuel at obscene rates and befoul the immediate atmosphere with tire smoke and arrogant levels of noise . .
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 19 July 2017
• For all the cocksure posturing and self-aware voguing, Usher avoided coming across as arrogant, insincere or unapproachable.
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
• This is not the time to be anything close to arrogant or picky.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
• But Mr Xi has called it arrogant and out of touch and closed down its school.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• First of all, that’s what an arrogant statement that is to make.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 24 July 2023
• Her Madame Curie is bold—even arrogant—and not afraid to speak her mind.
  — Cristine Russell, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2020
• Holding the draft in three weeks is even more arrogant.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• Having fun, man, and don’t come here and be arrogant with it.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 29 Aug. 2020
• So the most important thing now is to not get arrogant about it.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2019
• And this was what Chris thought about Mark: a real arrogant, smart-ass punk.
  — Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner, WIRED, 1 Dec. 1994
• This is Cruise at his most Cruise-iest, coiled, sure and arrogant, teeth gleaming in the sunshine.
  — Mark Kennedy, Chron, 12 May 2022
• The king of France assumes an arrogant pose, with his left hand on his hip to expose his sword.
  — Kate C. Lemay, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• The much bigger, stronger Jax is favored by fans over the arrogant, cocky Miss Bliss.
  — Jim Varsallone, miamiherald, 4 May 2018
• That the arrogant Fleischman doesn’t take to the place – even as the town populace (or most of it) takes to him – is the stuff of which TV shows are made.
  — Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 11 July 2020
• Hubris is still the provenance of the arrogant assumption.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• Sometimes that might seem arrogant to some people but that's just the way I was brought up.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 5 May 2023
• Their fans chests were puffed out and their voices as arrogant...
  — oregonlive, 30 Nov. 2020
• As a result, the players have been branded as brash and even arrogant.
  — Anne M. Peterson, baltimoresun.com, 4 July 2019
• In the 26½ years since the third movie was released, the Mighty Ducks have become an elite, arrogant powerhouse.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
• The poor ones on the street are just more honest and visible than the arrogant goobers in suits doing business in the dark crevices of Goat Hill.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al.com, 12 July 2019
• There was the body natural, which was often neglectful, arrogant, shy, and, when drunk, impossible to deal with, and then there was the body television, which was charming, graceful, comforting, beloved.
  — Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024