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Prideful

adjective
1.
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.  Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering.  "Haughty aristocrats" , "His lordly manners were offensive" , "Walked with a prideful swagger" , "Very sniffy about breaches of etiquette" , "His mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air" , "A more swaggering mood than usual"
2.
Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success.  Synonyms: exultant, exulting, jubilant, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant.  "A triumphal success" , "A triumphant shout"



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"Prideful" Quotes from Famous Books



... growing in the room, she rose, turned to Mara, and said, in prideful humility, "You have conquered. Let me go into the ...
— Lilith • George MacDonald

... the fact with a kind of prideful dignity. "She did everything for me and I had planned when I began to earn money that we would ...
— The Girls at Mount Morris • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... I tell? So be, He should be here to help her. What she'll do I am sure I do not know. We cannot keep her. And for her work, she does it far too well To earn a living by it. Her times are changed— She should not give herself such prideful airs. ...
— The Poetical Works of George MacDonald in Two Volumes, Volume I • George MacDonald

... who have owned to a sneaking liking and unwilling admiration for Lucifer, Son of the Morning—people of the same sort as those who find it difficult wholly to revere the prideless Erect when comparing them with the prideful Fallen—and, for the life of me, I cannot help a sneaking liking and unwilling admiration for Moussa Isa Somali, who ...
— Driftwood Spars - The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who - Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life • Percival Christopher Wren

... slatternly women, most of them with whimpering infants in their arms, talked of shop or household cares and the frailties of their neighbors. Some, more alive to the big events of a clashing world, repeated the meagre news of the ha'penny press and dwelt with prideful fervor on the latest bit of heroism reported from the front. Now and again an outburst of raucous humor echoed above the babble of cockney tongues. The maudlin clamor of "a pore lone lidy 'oos 'subing 'ad desarted 'er" failed to arouse anyone's curiosity. Ladies in their cups are not ...
— World's War Events, Vol. I • Various



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