prideful
Example Sentences
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This is not the time to be prideful about how much stress and responsibility you can take on.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026
The buildings that housed a prideful labor force are vandalized, colonized by squatters or boarded up.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026
While I firmly believe moviegoing audiences should be less averse to slow pacing, there’s an almost prideful lack of explanation for the context of images flickering across the screen.
From Salon • May 19, 2025
"Keeping Up Appearances was so joyous because it mocked the absurdity of prideful status-seeking," she noted of the Patricia Routledge-starring 1990s BBC sitcom.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025
Any other day I would have had to work hard not to get too prideful from such words coming from him.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
Vocabulary lists containing prideful
"The Ugly One," Vocabulary from Chapters 1-5
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A Step from Heaven
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