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as in arrogant
having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude a bunch of self-asserting upstarts who thought that they could buy their way into high society

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-asserting
Adjective
  • Saxon, for instance, is filling the same spoiled, arrogant space as Jake Lacy’s Shane from Season One.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2025
  • From director James Ashcroft (Coming Home in the Dark), who co-wrote the script with Eli Kent, The Rule of Jenny Pen centers on arrogant judge Stefan Mortensen (Rush), who has to live in a retirement home after a near-fatal stroke leaves him partially paralyzed.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • As the two grow closer professionally, Parsons is confident in what is ahead.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2025
  • However, staff are confident that Milo’s snuggly, exuberant personality will shine through in a loving home, ideally with other dogs.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, her life was turned upside down last week after President Donald Trump’s administration began instituting mass layoffs as part of an aggressive effort to trim the federal workforce.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Beef, coffee and orange juice are among groceries with higher prices, but eggs are uniquely affected by the aggressive strain of avian flu, which has strained supply.
    Dakin Andone, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Last week, Trump struck an optimistic note about Saudi-Israel normalization, claiming Riyadh wasn’t demanding an independent Palestinian state in return.
    Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Despite record-setting fundraising and an optimistic message about efforts to get voters to the polls in 2024, voter turnout in heavily Democratic Mecklenburg once again trailed the rest of North Carolina as Democrats failed to flip the battleground state for presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
    Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The Harper Collins title follows Radhika, an ambitious New Yorker who turns to her grandmother’s 1960s love story – documented in an old diary – after getting dumped.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
  • But Gustin, even as No. 1 on the call sheet, did not ask that the Arrowverse press pause on the ambitious idea.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Veteran San Diego actor Rosina Reynolds is the cast standout in her icy, fierce and acerbic performance as the uncompromising Polly.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Kyiv has often reported the fiercest clashes taking place in the oblast.
    Ellie Cook, Newsweek, 9 Feb. 2025
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“Self-asserting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-asserting. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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