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1 prepotencia
f.1 arrogance (arrogancia).2 dominance, power.3 pushiness, prepotency, self-importance.* * *1 (poder) dominance2 (arrogancia) arrogance* * *SF1) (=arrogancia) high-handednessel incidente fue un ejemplo más de su prepotencia — the incident was yet another example of his high-handedness
nunca me habían tratado con tanta prepotencia — I had never been treated in such a high-handed manner o with such arrogance
2) (=poder) power* * *femenino arrogance* * *= self-importance, haughtiness, superciliousness.Ex. Some people have a neurotic, exaggerated sense of self-importance and will nitpick and make a row over just everything in every shop or restaurant.Ex. Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.Ex. Whatever it is, humans are filled with superciliousness.----* con prepotencia = superciliously, haughtily.* opinar con prepotencia = opinionate.* * *femenino arrogance* * *= self-importance, haughtiness, superciliousness.Ex: Some people have a neurotic, exaggerated sense of self-importance and will nitpick and make a row over just everything in every shop or restaurant.
Ex: Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.Ex: Whatever it is, humans are filled with superciliousness.* con prepotencia = superciliously, haughtily.* opinar con prepotencia = opinionate.* * *arrogancela prepotencia de sus guardaespaldas the arrogance of her bodyguardsque no venga aquí a dar órdenes con esa prepotencia he'd better not come around here ordering people around in that high-handed waymenos prepotencia ¿eh? less of your smart mouth, O.K.? ( AmE), let's have less of your cockiness, thank you ( BrE)* * *
prepotencia sustantivo femenino
arrogance
prepotencia sustantivo femenino arrogance
' prepotencia' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
aguantar
English:
muscle
* * *prepotencia nf1. [arrogancia] arrogance;nos hablaba con mucha prepotencia he spoke to us very arrogantly o overbearingly2. [poder] dominance, power* * *f arrogance
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