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peremptory::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial |
a swaggering peremptory manner.
peremptory::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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spoke in peremptory tones.
peremptory commands.
peremptory::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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a peremptory decree.
Examples of peremptory
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The judge asked the prosecution to justify its use of the peremptory challenges.
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Sony has fired a peremptory strike against the Nintendo DSi, launching tomorrow.
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Sure sounds like good old imperious, peremptory, impatient Newt Gingrich to me.
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He was clean and vertical and peremptory in his uniform, like an exclamation mark.
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The marriage of brand advertising and free content is facing peremptory annulment.
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The defense can do so 13 times while the prosecution has nine peremptory challenges.
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Nursing an eye infection, he was none too pleased by the peremptory summons.
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Peremptory cash whip-rounds for Kremlin causes are met promptly and uncomplainingly.
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Graham's Rumsfeld is vain and peremptory, but sometimes effective and wise.
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- Autocratic: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering ...
- Not allowing contradiction or refusal; "spoke in peremptory tones"; "peremptory commands"
- (peremptorily) imperatively: in an imperative and commanding manner
- Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final. [from 15th c.]; Positive in opinion or judgment; absolutely certain, overconfident, unwilling to hear any debate or argument (especially in a pejorative sense); dogmatic. ...
- Something which is mandatory or absolute. A peremptory hearing date, for example, is a date on which a hearing will absolutely proceed without any further adjournment or delay.
- Determined, positive, authoritative, fixed in opinion, decisive, dogmatic, arrogant.
- Final or absolute or not open to challenge. An adjournment to a date which is set to be "peremptory" means that ther matter will go ahead on that date with no further applications for adjournment to be granted.
- Expressive of urgency or command; characterized by arrogant self-assurance
- Final, absolute, decisive.
