peremptoriness
Example Sentences
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Covering not just movies and television but also theater and cabaret, Reed, a Southerner who seemed as much a part of Manhattan as the skyline, lorded over the arts with a homogenizing mainstream peremptoriness.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
For the next half-hour Babs labored hard, and Judy superintended, giving sharp criticisms and ordering the arrangements of the chamber with much peremptoriness.
From A Young Mutineer by L. T. Meade
It seemed, as she spoke it, introduced simply to add peremptoriness to her forbiddance.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
And again the new note of peremptoriness rang in her voice, and her mother stopped suddenly short like a scolded child.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill
Oddly enough the coke had been sent three days before, and there was no need for peremptoriness.
From Miss Mapp by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
