Humility’s opposite, arrogance is an unjustified and inflated (immoderate) sense of self, sometimes expressed as grandiosity.
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- Lucette Lagnado, The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn (HarperCollins Publishers, 2011): this memoir may reflect more on privilege than on deep-seated arrogance. In fact, her title suggests a reflective humility, tempered perhaps by reconsideration of previous life experiences.
