Q.
What are some lesser used words to describe crushing arrogance?

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A.

Airish
Acting superior and snobby with nothing but hot air to back it up.

Biggity
Self-important, boastful, unbearably vain.

Blandiose
Grandiose meets bland.

Blatteroon
A person who brags and babbles endlessly.

Bumptious
Loudly, gratingly, cluelessly cocky.

Frustraneous
Vain. Of little use.

Huffish
Sulky and arrogant with a bully’s glee.

Nose-Wise
Nose up, talents down.

Orgulous
Haughty. Much ado about me.

Overweening
Oppressively overbearing and arrogant.

Quack
To boast ostentatiously. To brag.

Scaramouch
A person whose boasting masks deep cowardice.

Swasher
A braggart.

Swellheaded
Lofty. Thinking you are better than others.

Thrasonical
Boastful.

Toplofty
Pretentious. Self-important.

Tumorous
Can’t beat Samuel Johnson’s definition here: ‘Vainly pompous. Falsely magnificent.’

Uppish
Arrogant. Fueled by pride.

Vainglorious
Unjustified pride in one’s skills or accomplishments.

Vaunty
Absurdly and foolishly vain.

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