imperious
/ɪmˈpɪɹ.i.əs/ adjective C2- Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
- Urgent; intensely compelling.
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He has the reputation of being hot-headed and imperious, but a straight, honest man.
Dantès, cast from solitude into the world, frequently experienced an imperious desire for solitude; and what solitude is more complete, or more poetical, than that of a ship floating in isolation on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity, and under the eye of Heaven?
Bertuccio hung down his head before the imperious look of his master, and remained motionless, without making any answer.
“Dentro la testa!” answered a solemn and imperious voice, accompanied by a menacing gesture.
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