imperious
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The movie becomes increasingly surreal as Corvette, the Velvet Gang leader played by Keke Palmer, works to clean out the neon stores of an imperious designer played by Demi Moore.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
The 31-year-old was in imperious form, averaging 107 and 111, before another 100-plus average in the final.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
Those belts, if you’ll remember, were the trigger for Meryl Streep’s Oscar-nominated speech about how her imperious fashion magazine editor in chief Miranda Priestly creates trends that trickle down to the rest of us rabble.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 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
I felt at times as if he were my relation rather than my master: yet he was imperious sometimes still; but I did not mind that; I saw it was his way.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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