imperious
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Since then, they've been imperious, winning a second World Cup, reaching the final in 2017 and 2022, and lifting nine of the past 10 Six Nations titles.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
“You’ve quarreled with everyone,” Wilde’s old friend Frank Harris once despairingly informed Douglas, adding that “you have the most imperious temper I’ve ever met.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Curry recurs in Téa Leoni’s excellent sitcom as Sir Rudolph Halley, the imperious, amoral owner of the tabloid paper where Nora, Leoni’s character, works as a photographer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
In Gainsborough’s painting Germain looks imperious and impenitent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Then know that some man that all those mysterious and imperious concealed.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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