Peremptory is an English word with synonyms like autocratic or bossy. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Peremptory in a sentence
Peremptory meaning
- Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal
- (of a date or deadline) Absolutely requiring compliance or attendance; brooking no further delay; to proceed whether a party attends or not; final.
- Positive in opinion or judgment; absolutely certain, overconfident, unwilling to hear any debate or argument (especially in a pejorative sense); dogmatic.
Synonyms of Peremptory
Using Peremptory
- The main meaning on this page is: Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal | (of a date or deadline) Absolutely requiring compliance or attendance; brooking no further delay; to proceed whether a party attends or not; final. | Positive in opinion or judgment; absolutely certain, overconfident, unwilling to hear any debate or argument (especially in a pejorative sense); dogmatic.
- Useful related words include: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty.
- In the example corpus, peremptory often appears in combinations such as: peremptory challenges, peremptory challenge, the peremptory.
Context around Peremptory
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Peremptory
- In this selection, "peremptory" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, abolishing, indicate, challenges, challenge and norms stand out and add context to how "peremptory" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a more peremptory efficiency and a peremptory plea had. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "peremptory" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and abdulai, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with peremptory
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Two, to use a peremptory challenge. (6 words)
That first step is abolishing peremptory challenges. (7 words)
A peremptory plea had only one kind: a plea in bar. (11 words)
Traditionally the removal of jurors based on a peremptory challenge required no justification or explanation, but the tradition has been changed by the Supreme Court where the reason for the peremptory challenge was the race of the potential juror. (39 words)
Even with both sides dismissing jurors both for cause and through peremptory challenges, after only three days of jury selection, by the end of the week a full 12-person jury and six alternates had been seated. (37 words)
Do not then let us understand by what is called a 'commandment' a peremptory mandate delivered by organs of speech, and giving orders to the Son, as to a subordinate, concerning what He ought to do. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Traditionally the removal of jurors based on a peremptory challenge required no justification or explanation, but the tradition has been changed by the Supreme Court where the reason for the peremptory challenge was the race of the potential juror.
After that, attorneys used their peremptory strikes to knock out a set number of jurors without having to give a reason.
Your peremptory deployment of the archaic “balderdash” might impress the audience at a Bedford Planning Board meeting, but it cuts no mustard here.
Even with both sides dismissing jurors both for cause and through peremptory challenges, after only three days of jury selection, by the end of the week a full 12-person jury and six alternates had been seated.
In the New York case, for instance, the lawyers on both sides will look for political affiliations, among other factors, in order to determine whether to exercise their peremptory strikes.
Two, to use a peremptory challenge.
In fact, except for a jury pool composed entirely of House impeachment managers, Hart would appear to be a standout for a peremptory challenge by the defense team over bias.
He said he was considering whether the party should take a position on abolishing peremptory challenges but has not yet done so.
Several Indigenous people were rejected by the defence during jury selection with what are called peremptory challenges.
That first step is abolishing peremptory challenges.
They were rejected by Stanley’s lawyer through peremptory challenges, which can be made without having to give a reason.
All Australian states allow for peremptory challenges in jury selection, however, the number of challenges granted to the counsels in each state are not all the same.
A peremptory plea had only one kind: a plea in bar.
Certain norms of international law achieve the binding force of peremptory norms (jus cogens) as to include all states with no permissible derogations.
Do not then let us understand by what is called a 'commandment' a peremptory mandate delivered by organs of speech, and giving orders to the Son, as to a subordinate, concerning what He ought to do.
In Spain, they appeared to be safe, but Charles III of Spain (1759–88), aware of the drawn-out contentions in Bourbon France, decided on a more peremptory efficiency.
Ius publicum was also used to describe obligatory legal regulations (today called ius cogens—this term is applied in modern international law to indicate peremptory norms that cannot be derogated from).
Peremptory challenges are usually based on the hunches of counsel and no reason is needed to use them.
Sometimes, however, when he was trying to draw a thought out of himself, he would prohibit, with a peremptory motion of the hand, any questions or remarks.
The only limit to pacta sunt servanda are the peremptory norms of general international law, called jus cogens (compelling law).
Common combinations with peremptory
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: