Arrogancia in english
Arrogance
pronunciation: erəgəns part of speech: noun
pronunciation: erəgəns part of speech: noun
In gestures
arrogancia = arrogance ; hubris ; boastfulness ; snobbery ; haughtiness ; superciliousness ; chest-beating ; conceit ; self-conceit ; pretension ; condescension.
Example: That is a kind of, I would submit, bibliothecal arrogance on our part, a kind of intellectual elitism, if you will.Example: The conference underscored the hubris behind the 'bigger is better' logic ALA has apparently embraced.Example: For all their nationalistic boastfulness, the Spanish economy remained largely dependent on foreigners.Example: Do we really need a book to tell us what snobbery is and how it infects all the nooks and crannies of society?.Example: Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.Example: Whatever it is, humans are filled with superciliousness.Example: It's really sad, when the primal chest-beating of leaders is what wins out and leads to unneccessary war and invasion.Example: It's been hard to stomach the fool, with his conceit and his whining.Example: Man's self-conceit and love of power are the cause of most of his troubles, sins and vices.Example: He'd been popular earlier on but was now on thin ice with most members of our class due to his pretension and uppity manner.Example: The inherent condescension of this passage will probably cause much grinding of the teeth of the county library staff members present at the meeting.more:
» andar con arrogancia = swagger ; strut ; strut + Posesivo + stuff ; swan around ; swan about ; sashay .
Example: The paradox is that the war that was supposed to let them swagger and strut in the world was actually impeding their swagger and strut in the world. Example: The paradox is that the war that was supposed to let thenm swagger and strut in the world was actually impeding their swagger and strut in the world. Example: Christy likes to strut her stuff in any way possible to get attention. Example: The day I swan around in expensive suits is the day I hope someone puts a bullet in my head. Example: All she does is swan about, look at herself in the mirror and primp, and go to parties, smile and have a nice time. Example: When I was 29, I met a man with whom I shared the most soul-searing passion -- he sashayed his way into my life at a time when I was ripe for such an experience.» con arrogancia = superciliously ; haughtily ; condescendingly ; patronisingly [patronizingly, -USA] ; arrogantly .
Example: Tiff smiled a little superciliously intimating that he had a plan all figured out already. Example: The whole place pulsates with drama: an aristocratic extravagance with giant statues glowering haughtily from its domed roof. Example: Watching these white male lawyers talk down so condescendingly to is painful. Example: It was a while before it dawned on me that I was myself a migrant, displaying all the characteristics I so patronisingly observed in others. Example: He was smiling at her now, arrogantly and sneeringly.» tratar con arrogancia = condescend .
Example: The south London 'white trash' it portrays are as marginalized in their council flats as any poor sharecroppers, but the novel neither condescends toward them nor sentimentalizes their plight.