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• s  offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
  a swaggering peremptory manner
• s  not allowing contradiction or refusal
  spoke in peremptory tones
  peremptory commands
• s  putting an end to all debate or action
  a peremptory decree

• We don't read her body language the way we normally do because the words she is uttering are so peremptory and shocking.
• For 22 years, until 1972, this unwieldy kingdom was presided over by Sir Rudolf Bing, a resourceful administrator but one often resented for his peremptory ways.
• Two months later, as John McCain's peremptory selection of Governor Sarah Palin has come to seem a liability, it could be argued that Obama's quiet selection of Joe Biden defined the public's choice in the general-election campaign.

• autocratic
• bossy
• dominating
• high-and-mighty
• magisterial

News & Articles

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• Vail Daily column: Peremptory challenges and challenges for cause
  Just ’cause. That’s the basis of a peremptory challenge. And that’s a world different than because. Let me explain. What peremptory challenges and challenges for cause have to do with is voir dire.
  Nov. 6, 2013 - Vail Daily
• Petition of the day
  The petition of the day is: Avis Budget Group, Inc. v. Alaska Rent-A-Car, Inc. 13-330 Issue: Whether the erroneous deprivation of a peremptory challenge in federal court, which allows a prospective juror who should have been stricken to sit on the jury, is subject to harmless-error review.
  Nov. 2, 2013 - SCOTUSblog

Quotes

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• FW de Klerk in Reuters South Africa
  They must be even-handed and must take into consideration the peremptory requirements of the 1993 constitution as well as the spirit of the negotiations and other developments that preceded it,De Klerk said in a statement.
• Arthur M Schlesinger Jr in Hawaii Reporter
  Indeed, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., warned in 1973s The Imperial Presidency that the American political system was threatened by "a conception of presidential power so spacious and peremptory as to imply a radical transformation of the traditional...