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imperious

/im-peer-ee-uhs/US // ɪmˈpɪər i əs //UK // (ɪmˈpɪərɪəs) //

势在必得,专横的,专横跋扈,专横

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner;an imperious person.
    • : urgent; imperative: imperious need.

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Examples

  • If it’s a couple on a date, he would be imperious and try to intimidate the young man into spending a lot.

  • Facebook’s ad ban and its imperious claim to objectivity are symptoms of the company’s misguided understanding of what America needs from social media.

  • Blind almost from birth, Davis was nonetheless an imposing human being—in photographs and on film, he appears imperious, kinglike.

  • In the following issue, The Group was the subject of a snide, imperious review by Norman Mailer.

  • Imperious despot, insolent in strife, Lover of ruin, enemy of life!

  • And while Chasen could be imperious, “road rage was not her thing.”

  • A trademark outfit is vital to sending out the right signals of imperious power as real-life dictators understand all too well.

  • Edna was a trifle embarrassed at being thus signaled out for the imperious little woman's favor.

  • He was a refuge from herself; in his imperious demands her memory slept, her depths were stagnant.

  • He paused, and to illustrate the imperious humor of the Scot, he waved his fingers and a red wrister at me.

  • She might have settled down for life on Russian Hill, so completely did she make the new environment fit her imperious person.

  • Marriage, and later the birth of his son had softened Armand Aubigny's imperious and exacting nature greatly.