imperious

Example Sentences

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He has both the flush of youth and the imperious temper of a privileged young man who hasn’t grown up and probably never will.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

The Scots landed seven scores and a half century of points against the previously imperious but now seriously beleaguered French.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

But satisfaction isn’t in the cards for this general’s daughter, famed for her beauty and imperious style.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

And so the imperious patriarch, Whitelaw Redfellow—played by a shadowy, barely seen figure who is only toward the end revealed to be Ed Harris—casts her out of the family estate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Sigh not for jealousy, Mrs. Fruhling—she cast no eye upon me, and I made no overtures to that imperious individual, being of far too plain and low a stature for Her Highness.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson