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having an excessive sense of superiority
- Anatole's students did essentially the same, displaying a constant impulse to educate him about democracy and human rights—arrogant sophomores!Book 5 — Exodus (69% in)
- Tata Ndu certainly had his arrogance in the ways of command, even calling down a vote in church to humiliate my father, but in matters of life and death, I can see now, he was almost incomprehensibly polite.Book 5 — Exodus (56% in)
- Not necessarily, no. The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering.Book 5 — Exodus (89% in)
There are no more uses of "arrogant" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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