Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Obstinately insistent upon one's own opinions.
- adjective Vain; conceited.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Holding to one's own views and opinions, with more or less contempt for those of others.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective obstinate in your opinions
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Examples
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But; very high on the list of those that I loath with a passion, is that big headed, politically correct, self-opinionated, pseudo intellectual thinker Marcus Brigstocke.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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According to another theory, “Smart Alec” is one of several names, such as Clever Dick, used as catchwords to describe people who are conceited, self-opinionated or ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable.
Pardon my French Rene Meertens 2010
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Blog (n.): an online journal written by publicity-hungry politicians and self-opinionated journalist manqués, commenting on current political affairs with scant regard to fact or fairness, and accountable to nobody save their small band of obsessive readers.
Tuned in and turned on? Stephen Tall 2007
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Blog (n.): an online journal written by publicity-hungry politicians and self-opinionated journalist manqués, commenting on current political affairs with scant regard to fact or fairness, and accountable to nobody save their small band of obsessive readers.
Archive 2007-05-01 Stephen Tall 2007
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Says he should regress these against something else like the “increasing trend of self-opinionated verbiage” he produces.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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On the surface I give them the “striking likeness,” as they call it, that they all stand and gape at in astonishment — [Lowers his voice] — but at bottom they are all respectable, pompous horse-faces, and self-opinionated donkey-muzzles, and lop-eared, low-browed dog-skulls, and fatted swine-snouts — and sometimes dull, brutal bull-fronts as well — —
When We Dead Awaken 2008
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On the surface I give them the “striking likeness,” as they call it, that they all stand and gape at in astonishment — [Lowers his voice] — but at bottom they are all respectable, pompous horse-faces, and self-opinionated donkey-muzzles, and lop-eared, low-browed dog-skulls, and fatted swine-snouts — and sometimes dull, brutal bull-fronts as well — —
When We Dead Awaken 2008
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Blog n.: an online journal written by publicity-hungry politicians and self-opinionated journalist manqués, commenting on current political affairs with scant regard to fact or fairness, and accountable to nobody save their small band of obsessive readers.
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Geikie also wrote the biography of his mentor, the arrogant, self-opinionated, and aggressively irascible Sir Roderick Impey Murchison.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Geikie also wrote the biography of his mentor, the arrogant, self-opinionated, and aggressively irascible Sir Roderick Impey Murchison.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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