(adjective) putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay / (adjective) not providing an opportunity to show cause why one should not comply / (adjective) admitting of no contradiction / (adjective) expressive of urgency or command / (adjective) characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance / (adjective) indicative of a peremptory attitude or nature; haughty / (noun) a challenge (as of a juror) made as of right without assigning any cause
Undismayed by lack of piano accompaniment, or now the peremptory rattle of the baton, this baying augmented as the apparition drew up at the footlights for breath.
Undismayed by lack of piano accompaniment, or now the peremptory rattle of the baton, this baying augmented as the apparition drew up at the footlights for breath.
(adverb) in a series / (adjective) following seriatim (Latin)
he light changed and released them across Broadway and down Wall in disheveled Indian file staggered seriatim
he light changed and released them across Broadway and down Wall in disheveled Indian file staggered seriatim
(adjective) kind obliging / (adjective) dutiful / (adjective) volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed; meddlesome / (adjective) informal unofficial
But she’d sunk back on a leather bench, left the assault to their guide’s officious requests
But she’d sunk back on a leather bench, left the assault to their guide’s officious requests
(adjective) kind obliging / (adjective) dutiful / (adjective) volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed; meddlesome / (adjective) informal unofficial
as beams of the police car swept them in an officious turn and sought the opening in the hedge.
as beams of the police car swept them in an officious turn and sought the opening in the hedge.
(noun) a shoe having the tongue and vamp cut in one piece and the quarters lapped over the vamp and laced together for closing / (biographical name) Gebhard Leberecht von 1742–1819 prince of Wahlstatt Pruss. field marshal
cornering with a dulled blucher a delicately striped and more delicately shaded hindquarter
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cornering with a dulled blucher a delicately striped and more delicately shaded hindquarter
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calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation
caught a rise and fall of yellow skirting another stolid mass of blue toward the elevators
caught a rise and fall of yellow skirting another stolid mass of blue toward the elevators