pride
noun
a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
prideless
-
a word derived from
pride.
Example Sentences
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Many Germans are totally fed up with the ill-disciplined, prideless people we call the military.
From Time Magazine Archive
The production, like the prince, is passionless, prideless and bloodless.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every day brought compromise so basic neither one would talk about it, as though such prideless friendship belonged to a realm past conversation.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Still Helen stood now, desperate, prideless, before Theresa’s blank apartment door.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
That this cadaverous, prideless individual could once have been the vain-glorious showman was almost inconceivable.
From The Rose in the Ring by George Barr McCutcheon
