All 5 Uses of
imperious
in
Bleak House
- A man who joined his regiment at twenty and within a week challenged the most imperious and presumptuous coxcomb of a commanding officer that ever drew the breath of life through a tight waist—and got broke for it—is not the man to be walked over by all the Sir Lucifers, dead or alive, locked or unlocked.†
Chpt 7-9
- I suppose there is nothing pride can so little bear with as pride itself, and that she was punished for her imperious manner.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- Lady Dedlock looks imperiously at her visitor when the servant has left the room, casting her eyes over him from head to foot.†
Chpt 28-30
- Greater still when Ada asked me what she had said, and when I replied that she had been kind and interested, and when Ada, while admitting her beauty and elegance, remarked upon her proud manner and her imperious chilling air.†
Chpt 37-39
- Too capricious and imperious in all she does to be the cause of much surprise in those about her as to anything she does, this woman, loosely muffled, goes out into the moonlight.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(imperious) expecting obedience; or arrogant; or domineering