Definitionadj. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
Last update: January 21, 2017
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No serious international lawyer would deny that the right of self-determination is a peremptory norm, indeed it is the pre-eminent example... [adjective]
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AUSTRALIA: If we consider for a second Attorney General Ruddockâs failed logic, his peremptory pain-in-the-ass hogwash. [adjective]
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The habit of authority had also given his manners some peremptory hardness, notwithstanding the polish which they had received from his intimate acquaintance with the higher circles. [adjective]
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'Your intentions may be kind, sir,' said Waverley, drily; 'but your language is harsh, or at least peremptory.' [adjective]
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He indeed knew of more motives than Waverley was privy to for the peremptory order that he should join his regiment. [adjective]
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This peremptory message filled me with indignation. [adjective]
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The eyebrow and upper lip bespoke something of the habit of peremptory command and decisive superiority. [adjective]
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I wanted to provoke a peremptory reply, and to pave the way for Christianity's triumph, in spite of the innumerable attacks of which it is at present the object. [adjective]
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