overbearing

proud, arrogant, haughty, lordly, insolent, overbearing, supercilious, disdainful mean showing scorn for inferiors. proud may suggest an assumed superiority or loftiness.

• • too proud to take charity

arrogant implies a claiming for oneself of more consideration or importance than is warranted.

• • a conceited and arrogant executive

haughty suggests a consciousness of superior birth or position.

• • a haughty aristocrat

lordly implies pomposity or an arrogant display of power.

• • a lordly condescension

insolent implies contemptuous haughtiness.

• • ignored by an insolent waiter

overbearing suggests a tyrannical manner or an intolerable insolence.

• • an overbearing supervisor

supercilious implies a cool, patronizing haughtiness.

• • an aloof and supercilious manner

disdainful suggests a more active and openly scornful superciliousness.

• • disdainful of their social inferiors