overproud

[oh-ver-proud]

adjective

1. excessively proud.

Other Word Forms

• overproudly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of overproud¹

before 1050; Middle English over prowde, Old English ofer-prūt. See over-, proud

Example Sentences

Tallhart, you bloody overproud fool, you never even sent out a scout.

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The one or two colleges that, for Puritan principles or thrift, or both, refused to give up their old plate, are not overproud of showing it.

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We took ye, a raw liddie, some bit overproud of himself, and now I'm thinking we'll miss ye when we send ye back the makings of a man.

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They say he wrought you ill, and was cruel when he should have been gentle with you, and was overproud of his office.

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It was like my mother to think first of others; but in a little she said, "I trust I am not overproud, that my bairn is so honoured."

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