(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
His best novel, Histoire de l’œil (Story of the Eye), today a classic of obscure symbolism and underage sex, was published in 1928 and peremptorily banned
because the arrow's peremptory inexorability, without modulations, excludes all the intentions, implications, hesitations possible in the voice of someone I do not see
participating in conversations with GOLEM requires people to have patience and above all self-control, for from our point of view it can be arrogant and peremptory.
But if she had, was this the way to give him the news? With a cold and peremptory phone call?
i keep thinking this means like preemptive but it's more like, matter-of-fact, not expecting any debate, etc
To insituate into Order the accommodating spectable of its servitudes has of late become a paradoxical but peremptory means of its inflation.
boy, what a sentence
replied my stepfather with didactic peremptoriness
The most excruciating thing was probably their stern, dogmatic, peremptory tone, quivering with repressed indignation
I was being savagely pressed against his chest and peremptorily ordered to get into bed.
The reader should not be misled by the somewhat peremptory air which the effort at axiomization may give to my argument.
He had already filled his lungs to let out the peremptory yell they both expected
She thrust the glass at Anna, and said peremptorily: 'Fill it.'
She spoke decisively, sometimes even in a peremptory tone
“Excuse me,” Alton said in a peremptory tone.
With one peremptory hand he seats her at a conference table made of outlawed mahogany
They were silent and attentive while he put the glasses back on, and said, peremptorily, —Come with me, I’ve got something to show you
it relapsed into the expression of intent vacancy which it had not lost, even in the interruption of surprise, a peremptory confusion which had seemed, for that instant, to empty it even further
I hissed and in such a peremptory tone, so clearly close to shouting, so determined to attack and to fight with all my energy, that he got up, slowly, and said with disgust
Individual influence was, of course, discernible, but not peremptory; artists came and went, Byzantine iconography stayed.
"Elbows off the table!” A cheerful and peremptory call to manners that has vast stretches of childhood in it.
damn great word