purse-proud
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of purse-proud
First recorded in 1675–85
Example Sentences
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Leon Henderson had asked the purse-proud Budget Bureau for $210 million to up his staff of 7,300 to 90,000 price cops and helpers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Are we provincial, power-conscious, purse-proud, Paar-like, puerile, paternal, peace-loving, perceptive, practical, persuasive, principled, or phwhat?
From Time Magazine Archive
She is very good-looking, of course,” Dauncey continued hesitatingly, “although she always reminded me of one of the conventional pictures of the birth or purse-proud young women which adorn the illustrated papers.”
From Jacob's Ladder by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Why did not fortune take other people, the purse-proud, the scheming, the vicious, the arrogant, the avaricious, instead of us—drag them from their places, and batter and trundle them in the gutter?
From Willing to Die by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
A year before he had been prosperous, purse-proud, free from debt, with a good business.
From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.
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