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prideful
adjective as in arrogant; overly proud
Weak matches
- aloof
- assuming
- audacious
- autocratic
- biggety
- boastful
- bossy
- bragging
- cavalier
- cheeky
- cocky
- cold-shoulder
- conceited
- contemptuous
- cool
- disdainful
- dismissive
- domineering
- egotistic
- egotistical
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- imperious
- insolent
- know-it-all
- lofty
- lordly
- narcissistic
- on an ego trip
- on one's high horse
- overbearing
- overweening
- peremptory
- pompous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffed up
- scornful
- self-important
- self-satisfied
- smug
- sniffy
- snippy
- snobbish
- snooty
- snotty
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- superior
- swaggering
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
adjective as in self-respecting
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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.
Instead, 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.
She had spoken with a defensive tone, one hardly certain, but as she finished a prideful note crept into her voice.
"You can revile me as much as you like now, Nan," he said, with prideful humility.
To himself, as already stated, the latter took prideful credit for results achieved and results promised.
I am not speaking sarcastically, my point is not a chauvinistic one, not even hemispherically prideful.
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On this page you'll find 73 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prideful, such as: aloof, assuming, audacious, autocratic, biggety, and bossy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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