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
They were upstarts, purse-proud, vain, and coarse-minded; and they dared to aspire to an ambition which they were too dull and too cowardly to pursue, when the game-45- was in their hands.
From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church
Meek Walter Mason was beginning to show boldness in dealing with the purse-proud girl.
From Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse by Annie Roe Carr
For her sake, to win for his wife the daughter of his wealthy, purse-proud employer, Schommer had laboured with superhuman energy, and embarked his first accumulated earnings in speculation.
From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss
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