prideful
thinking too highly of oneself; conceited, arrogant, or overconfident:I was too bitter and prideful and didn't think I needed the Addiction Recovery meetings, so I didn’t go.
full of a legitimate sense of self-worth or satisfaction because of one’s own or another’s accomplishment:It is a prideful moment for us as we congratulate our friend, one of ten winners of the annual Worldwide Robotics contest.
Origin of prideful
1Other words from prideful
- pride·ful·ly, adverb
- pride·ful·ness, noun
- un·pride·ful, adjective
- un·pride·ful·ly, adverb
Words Nearby prideful
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How to use prideful in a sentence
That message of inclusion and pride was both shown and told at the Democratic convention the week before.
Parents have pride in their neighborhoods even if the teachers there do not live, shop or educate their own children in the neighborhood in which they work.
Our Public Schools Have a Customer Service Problem | Thomas Courtney | September 10, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoA third says “Joe,” incorporating colors from the pride flag.
Official Biden-Harris campaign yard signs available for download in Nintendo’s ‘Animal Crossing’ | rhhackettfortune | September 1, 2020 | FortuneNevertheless, with great self-confidence and pride, I answered him.
‘The Dream Architects’: Inside the making of gaming’s biggest franchises | Rachel King | September 1, 2020 | FortuneI actually take pride in being attacked by both and having fans on both the left and the right, it means a lot to me.
His harshest words of criticism were aimed at those who were prideful.
An early Zionist leader, prideful, pugnacious, Ussishkin headed the Jewish National Fund for nearly 20 years.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz Is Not The Name Of A Street | Gershom Gorenberg | April 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTInstead, it is prideful ignorance—an eagerness to go off the fiscal cliff to show the world that gravity does not exist.
One of the central reasons entrepreneurial capitalism works well is that humans are a prideful species.
But they were safe, and in a prideful, self-conscious, young-mother way she began to wash the five.
Roof and Meadow | Dallas Lore SharpShe had spoken with a defensive tone, one hardly certain, but as she finished a prideful note crept into her voice.
A Pagan of the Hills | Charles Neville Buck"You can revile me as much as you like now, Nan," he said, with prideful humility.
The Quickening | Francis LyndeTo himself, as already stated, the latter took prideful credit for results achieved and results promised.
Sundry Accounts | Irvin S. CobbI am not speaking sarcastically, my point is not a chauvinistic one, not even hemispherically prideful.
Greener Than You Think | Ward Moore
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