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Перевод: arrogance

[существительное]
высокомерие; надменность ; заносчивость ; самонадеянность ; кичливость ; гонор ; спесивость

Тезаурус:

1. Twice Richards complained about the ball, each time causing a lengthy hold-up to upset the batsmen's concentration, and behaving with such arrogance that after the match he apologized to the umpires for it.
2. Letter to the Editor: TV presenters' arrogance
3. Sometimes he was confident to the point of arrogance, and sometimes depressed to the point of despair.
4. Frequently the perhaps unconscious arrogance of presenters invokes their saying to those they are interviewing, "What you are saying is" rather than "Are you saying that..?"
5. The preacher's arrogance and pomposity made Rosebery erupt: "He is a buffoon without the merits of a buffoon."
6. Though his current technique is based on the battle against fast bowling (he is moving back rather than across in an attempt to eliminate his Achilles heel, the lbw decision), he plays slow bowling with rare arrogance.
7. The company's overwhelmingly American board of directors and senior management still suffer from a not-invented-here arrogance.
8. One would not be so sensitive about a little natural arrogance in a powerful nation (a fault from which other powerful nations suffer as well) were it not for the disastrous effect of the German consciousness of having a "mission" in the past.
9. The American attacks on Iraq, it said, were intended to "bludgeon the Iraqi people and the Arab world, to force them to submit to Israeli arrogance."
10. In the sweetness of victory, Mr Andreotti's Roman cohorts have forgotten that they are mortal and, in the eyes of many churchmen, their greed and arrogance now risk bringing Catholic politics into disrepute.
11. There was no pity for his evident loneliness and many stories circulating about his arrogance and the superior manner in which he parked the cheaply-framed photograph of his parents on his night table.
12. He cast aside the shackles of statesmanship imposed by his minders throughout the campaign to denounce the arrogance of the Press and political establishment who had condemned him as cocky and inadequate to be prime minister.
13. Indeed, as C. S. L. Davies has suggested, the arrogance with which he treated his fellow-councillors in the two years before his fall in October 1549 may owe a lot to his outstanding success at Pinkie, when he may have believed that he was about to achieve what some of the greatest of English kings had failed to do.