imperious
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The following season, Ramsdale was a vital cog in Arsenal's spine as they launched a surprise title challenge, only to be outdone by an imperious Manchester City side.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
“You’ve quarreled with everyone,” Wilde’s old friend Frank Harris once despairingly informed Douglas, adding that “you have the most imperious temper I’ve ever met.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Since claiming the Iron Throne, however, she has been a whinging, imperious mess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The Italian said afterwards he had "needed that today" from the crowd to help him over the line - but his serve was almost imperious throughout.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever—there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt, and the somewhat raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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