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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
- 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
- The lead illustration for his article is a page layout of five postcards of female Spanish singers, each wearing a mantilla and pridefully posing for the camera.
- The warrior Coriolanus is perhaps the most opaque of Shakespeare's tragic heroes, rarely pausing to soliloquize or reveal the motives behind his prideful isolation from Roman society. Archive 2009-03-01
- Like his rebel ancestor, Buchanan is fighting a lost cause with prideful determination despite overwhelming odds.
- walked with a prideful swagger
- Daniel prefaces his interpretation with a review of Nebuchadnezzar's prideful fall from grace and Beishazzar's own lack of humility.
- Daniel prefaces his interpretation with a review of Nebuchadnezzar's prideful fall from grace and Beishazzar's own lack of humility.
- At 18 I was ballsy, bold and grown up and so – in the prideful foolishness of my rose-coloured glasses – had planned the baby with my then boyfriend. My teenage daughter is pregnant - I feel so ashamed
- My mother would scold for being a prideful and uncompassionate gossip.
- And i surmisal there's ever a payment on pridefulness wherever you haw be. Planet Malaysia
