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pride
noun as in self-esteem
Strongest matches
delight, dignity, ego, happiness, honor, joy, pleasure, satisfaction, self-confidence, self-respect
Strong matches
egoism, egotism, face, gratification, pridefulness, repletion, self-love, self-regard, self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-worth, sufficiency
Weak matches
amour-propre, self-admiration, self-glorification, self-trust
noun as in arrogance, self-importance
Strongest match
Strong matches
airs, cockiness, conceit, condescension, contumely, disdainfulness, ego trip, egoism, egotism, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, immodesty, insolence, loftiness, narcissism, overconfidence, patronage, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, self-love, smugness, snobbery, superciliousness, swagger, vainglory, vanity
Weak matches
big-headedness, proud flesh, self-exaltation, superbity, swelled head
noun as in treasure; best
Example Sentences
That tide has turned under President Xi Jinping, whose government is tightening controls on Pride events, restricting queer representation on TV and pressuring internet sites and platforms to scrub LGBTQ-friendly content.
Finding out his relative “helped bring freedom to so many people” has brought Cameron “a real sense of pride,” he says.
He would, as attorney general, almost certainly try to fire many of the agency’s 115,000 employees—career civil servants who pride themselves on integrity and independence—so he can replace them with staunch partisans.
Despite his stature, not even Jones could alter the forces of power and pride that were at work and prevent the bloodshed.
There was a sense of weird pride in it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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