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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



Words linked to "Prideful" :   elated, proud



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