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The Grapes of Wrath vocabulary
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imperious
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synonyms: supercilious, vainglorious, grandiloquent, high-toned, overweening, turgid, tumescent, orotund, orgulous, thrasonical, ~hauteur ???
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Definition:arrogant and domineering
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She spoke with the imperious curtness of a princess of the Middle Ages giving instructions to one of the scullions or scurvy knaves on her payroll,
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.15 (1971)
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But, Uncle Pumblechook, who was omnipotent in that kitchen, wouldn't hear the word, wouldn't hear of the subject, imperiously waved it all away with his hand, and asked for hot gin and water.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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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.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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It was not to be. In the drawing-room Mrs. Rastall-Retford came out of her trance and called imperiously for the cards. Peter, when he saw his hand after the first deal, had a presentiment that if all his hands were to be as good as this, the evening was going to be a trying one.
P.G. Wodehouse. Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories
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in his shrewd, deep-set eyes, in his idiomatic, fluent Russian, in the imperious tone that had become habitual from long use,
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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They could no longer assume the role of hunted women. They had been made too imperious; by money, by fame, by their former beauty.
Mario Puzo. The Godfather, p.181 (1969)
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Among the terriers he stalked imperiously, and Toots and Ysabel he utterly ignored, for he was king,—king over all creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller's place, humans included.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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