arrogant assumption
collocation in Englishmeaningsofarrogantandassumption
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arrogant
adjective
uk/ˈær.ə.ɡənt/us/ˈer.ə.ɡənt/
unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, ...
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assumption
noun
uk/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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(Definition ofarrogantandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Bhagwati's suggestion involves the somewhatarrogantassumptionthat home country standards are always 'better', whatever exactly that means.
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Now that is the mostarrogantassumptionof absolute power that has ever been known or heard of in this country.
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The question is whether herarrogantassumptionof perfection will allow her to learn it.
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They show anarrogantassumptionof a monopoly of morality and virtue when discussing these matters—which, of course, concern us all.
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There is too often a patronising andarrogantassumptionthat the professional knows best and that individuals cannot be trusted with recorded information about themselves.
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He made thearrogantassumptionthat we who take a different view from him are less patriotic.
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All his plans are based on thearrogantassumptionthat unemployment is no longer a problem.
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That is anarrogantassumption, and we should not behave arrogantly.
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Is that not a breathtakinglyarrogantassumptionto make, given the nature of the legislation?
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That would be quite absurd, and yet they come along with that kind ofarrogantassumption.
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Similarly, what basis is there for thearrogantassumptionthat some workers are taking more than their share and are exploiting their bargaining position?
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There is the impliedarrogantassumptionin his remark that only in his language can ideas be expressed eloquently.
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Why should we, the superior people, who can see as much of this as we like, make thisarrogantassumptionthat it will corrupt the inferior people?
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That is anarrogantassumption.
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That is an extremelyarrogantassumption.
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It is anarrogantassumption.
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We have had her usualarrogantassumptionthat she alone is right, her unyielding stubbornness, and refusal to comprehend, let alone act on, the advice of anyone else.
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This denial of democracy, contempt for people's views andarrogantassumptionthat any form of dissent is wrong, will be used against them by others who equally disdain democracy.
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Ministers must not walk away with thearrogantassumption—which is becoming all too common—that just because they say certain things those things must be so.
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