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
Still Helen stood now, desperate, prideless, before Theresa’s blank apartment door.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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
She would not have been surprised had she been taken into the dancer’s cabin and encountered on common ground; nor surprised had she been taken in and flaunted in prideless arrogance.
From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London
