pridefulness

Example Sentences

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Cumming and the producers know they’re playing with people who love being the center of attention and love winning — and manipulate their pridefulness to reduce them to wrecks.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025

Cumming and the producers know they’re playing with people who love being the center of attention and love winning — and manipulate their pridefulness to reduce them to wrecks.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025

While there’s humor in Nick’s jealousy of his rich and handsome competitor, Sandler laces it with a feeling of threatened ego and husbandly pridefulness.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2023

Thus, handing down to its undergraduates a rule about acquiring clothes reflective of school pride and pridefulness, I hope to influence their peers across the nation.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2014

For some time she had measured the extent of her pridefulness, but she could not find any way to remedy it because the more she thought of solutions the less rational they seemed to her.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez