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UK
/pɹˈaɪdfəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
a triumphal success
a triumphant shout
rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day -
having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
haughty aristocrats
walked with a prideful swagger
some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
his lordly manners were offensive
a more swaggering mood than usual
very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
How To Use prideful In A Sentence
- My mother would scold for being a prideful and uncompassionate gossip.
- He is not as strong, arrogant, and prideful as he was in the beginning of the play instead he is weak, scared, and a confused old man.
- To normal, healthy people the prideful self-delusion is obvious.
- Like his rebel ancestor, Buchanan is fighting a lost cause with prideful determination despite overwhelming odds.
- Peter Matheson, as macho and prideful as a matador, had been steeped in konjo, a Japanese word Wolf had learned many years later from his aikido sensei, which meant a distinctly masochistic obsession for physical acts that involve an enormous degree of hardship and pain. Black Blade
- Deep within their prideful hearts they knew she would catheterize them, without a thought, in an instant. Nurse Cratchett
- Some will wear it as a proud and I don't mean prideful badge, a faithful, even kerygmatic public statement. Christopher Cocca: Ash Wednesday And The Value Of Tradition
- Stricken with guilt after pridefully counting his fighting men, David confessed.
- And i surmisal there's ever a payment on pridefulness wherever you haw be. Planet Malaysia
- Not brazened-it-out, or wrapped-himself-in-pridefulness (the surest sign of struggle), simply free, by what conjunction of insight or ignorance I am still at a loss to imagine, from the universal misery of fitting-in - the-body. Two Poems
