arrogance

I had presumed that the French sommelier’s response was based on arrogance.

For years I considered leaf blowers the soundtrack of suburban arrogance—loud, obnoxiously polluting, proof someone thought their driveway mattered more than the planet.

When he smiles, some hail him as a symbol of hope; others accuse him of arrogance.

"Too many modern designs had been 'ego-driven' and the architectural arrogance was off the scale," he said.

Lynching’s grotesque aim is only partly punishment, the arrogance of judgment not determined by a court of law against a claimed transgressor.