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hubris
[ hyoo-bris, hoo- ]
noun
- excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
hubris
/ ˈhjuːbrɪs /
noun
- pride or arrogance
- (in Greek tragedy) an excess of ambition, pride, etc, ultimately causing the transgressor's ruin
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Derived Forms
- huˈbristic, adjective
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Other Words From
- hu·bristic adjective
- nonhu·bristic adjective
- unhu·bristic adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hubris1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hubris1
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Example Sentences
He won re-election twice as governor of New York, and had the hubris to run for a fourth term before being defeated in 1994.
What were his weaknesses as a military commander: was it hubris?
The hubris of that position did so much to create and compound these problems.
Can Clinton help find the elusive middle ground in American foreign policy between the hubris of Bush and the reluctance of Obama?
Downes disparages this as hubris, “man too big for his boots.”
Or was even as noble a mind as his not proof against the overweening hubris to which a despotic genius has so often succumbed?
Every year He waxes too strong and commits "Hubris," and such sin has its proper punishment.
Each Year arrives, waxes great, commits the sin of Hubris, and then is slain.
Her hubris was in part, at all events, the result of ignorance.
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