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Here are the many results of Week 124, complete with an introduction in which I clearly was trying to establish a snotty, imperious tone.

As Charles, Roe Hartrampf is all imperious whining in mouse-that-roared uniforms and Savile Row suits.

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.

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On this page you'll find 88 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to imperious, such as: arrogant, autocratic, dictatorial, domineering, exacting, and haughty.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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