How to Use arrogant in a Sentence

arrogant

adjective

• She's first in her class, but she's not arrogant about it.
• This is not the time to be anything close to arrogant or picky.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
• Holding the draft in three weeks is even more arrogant.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• So the most important thing now is to not get arrogant about it.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2019
• First of all, that’s what an arrogant statement that is to make.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 24 July 2023
• Their fans chests were puffed out and their voices as arrogant...
  — oregonlive, 30 Nov. 2020
• Having fun, man, and don’t come here and be arrogant with it.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 29 Aug. 2020
• But Mr Xi has called it arrogant and out of touch and closed down its school.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• As a result, the players have been branded as brash and even arrogant.
  — Anne M. Peterson, baltimoresun.com, 4 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• This is the kind of arrogant survival of the fittest entitlement that says their pleasure is worth more than your life.
  — Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2021
• Just another arrogant guy too lazy to mix in facts with his opinions.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 10 Feb. 2020
• The wife wanted the spaces to be pretty but not fussy, good-looking but not arrogant.
  — Kathleen Hackett, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2016
• Some kids with that talent can be super arrogant or hard to manage.
  — Bob Narang, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• The first was a combative bully, the other, an arrogant despot.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2022
• Her Madame Curie is bold—even arrogant—and not afraid to speak her mind.
  — Cristine Russell, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2020
• Some of his friends became bolder and more arrogant with success.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
• And the people running it are either too arrogant or too oblivious to even be cute about it.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 May 2017
• Gonzalez was a playmaker, arrogant in a good way when the chance was there to make a special play.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2019
• Some think its arrogant and tone deaf to hold the event during the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Kent Somers, azcentral, 5 Apr. 2020
• Or from sort of an arrogant or narcissistic thinking that their thing is the best thing to buy or purchase.
  — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• The members of this arrogant crew compare their role in rounding up migrants to hunters tracking deer.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2022
• But Lloyd then brought up the arrogant messaging of dancing.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• The Astros seem defiant, arrogant and ready to take on all doubters.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• And those who think it’s crazy, or arrogant, at first, usually will come around.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022
• After all, no one wants to come across as arrogant or obnoxious.
  — Adunola Adeshola, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• Recall that there was a time when this seemed like an audacious, even arrogant, goal.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• Does being a bit arrogant affect how effective a leader is seen to be?
  — Joseph Folkman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Earth Tigers are generous, but can have an arrogant side as well.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 29 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Apr 2024