hubristic

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1. Of or relating to hubris (“excessive arrogance or pride, or presumption”); hence, overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner.

   Everyone who has experienced the hubristic qualities of the Tufted race, and its satellites, will cordially sympathize with this sentiment of an orderly and industrious undergraduate [i.e. William Ewart Gladstone].

   1831 (date written), George W[illiam] E[rskine] Russell, quoting an anonymous letter-writer, “Birth, Parentage, and Education”, in Stuart J. Reid, editor, The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone (The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria), London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company […], published 1891, →OCLC, page 17

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   Aristotle […] also maintains that the wealth, strength, many friends, and power of the wealthy make them hubristic because they do not fear repercussions for their conduct. The wealthy are hubristic, he adds later[…], but the new rich are particularly so, and in their unrestrained state are likely to assault others and engage in sexual predation (i.e., as ways of asserting the status they want to be recognized as having).

   1995, David [J.] Cohen, “Violence and Litigation”, in Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens (Key Themes in Ancient History), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Realm of the Courts), page 141

   [Elon] Musk is easily cast as a hubristic supervillain, lumped in with the tech bros and space playboys, for whom money is scorekeeping and rockets are the ultimate toy. But he's different: he's a manufacturing magnate—moving metal, not bytes.

   2021 December 13, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021

   Synonyms: hubrid, hubristical, airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed · Antonyms: unhubristic, abased, demure, diffident, humble, humble-hearted, low, lowly