arrogance
Other forms: arrogances
Arrogance is overbearing pride or haughtiness. If your friends are constantly complaining about your arrogance, you might want to lose the haughty attitude and try to be more humble.
Arrogance comes from the Latin arrogans which means overbearing. If you show arrogance, your pride is overbearing and offensive to others. Arrogance can also be attributed to corporations who fail to take consumer opinion into account and to nations that seem to do whatever they want with no regard for other countries.
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overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiorssynonyms: haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordlinesstypes:condescension, disdainfulness, superciliousnessthe trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferiorcontemptuousnessthe manifestation of scorn and contempthubrisoverbearing pride or presumptionsuperioritydisplaying a sense of being better than othersclannishness, cliquishness, exclusiveness, exclusivitytendency to associate with only a select group
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After Hannah Baker's death, classmate Clay Jenson receives a set of cassette tapes in which Hannah makes painful revelations.