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  • 31arrogant — a. Haughty, proud, supercilious, lordly, disdainful, contumelious, insolent, cavalier, overbearing, overweening, assuming, magisterial, dogmatic, imperious, important, swelling, blustering, big, high, lofty, self conceited, self sufficient, self… …

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  • 32importunate — Synonyms and related words: aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, cajoling, choiceless, clamant, clamorous, coaxing, compulsory, controlled, crying, demanding, disturbing, draining, dunning, exacting, exasperating, exigent, exorbitant,… …

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  • 33strong minded — Synonyms and related words: bright, conceptive, conceptual, controlled, discursive, firm minded, forward, ideational, importunate, independent, intellectual, intelligent, knowing, noetic, not so dumb, pushy, rational, reasonable, sane, self… …

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  • 34egotistic — a.; (also egotistical) Conceited, vain, opinionated, self important, self conceited, self admiring, self asserting, bumptious (colloq.) …

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  • 35Mainstream — For other uses, see Mainstream (disambiguation). Mainstream is, generally, the common current thought of the majority.[1] However, the mainstream is far from cohesive; rather the concept is often considered a cultural construct[citation needed].… …

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  • 36pushful — Synonyms and related words: assertive, assured, brash, confident, forward, imposing, intrusive, militant, obtrusive, officious, overweening, presuming, pushing, pushy, self asserting, self assertive, self confident, uppish, uppity …

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  • 37pushing — Synonyms and related words: adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, ambitious, assertive, brash, busy, busybody, driving, dynamic, enterprising, forceful, forward, go ahead, hustling, impertinent, inquisitive, meddlesome, meddling, militant,… …

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  • 38uppish — Synonyms and related words: affected, brash, conceited, forward, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity toity, overweening, presuming, pushful, pushing, putting on airs, self asserting, self assertive, self important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stuck …

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  • 39brash — Synonyms and related words: abrupt, aggressive, arrogant, audacious, bearish, beastly, biggety, bluff, blunt, bold, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, brusque, bumptious, cavalier, challenging, cheeky, churlish, chutzpadik, cocksure, cocky,… …

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  • 40uppity — Synonyms and related words: arrogant, audacious, big, brash, bumptious, cold, condescending, contumelious, cool, disdainful, domineering, familiar, forward, haughty, high faluting, high flown, high headed, high nosed, hoity toity, hubristic,… …

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