prideful

comparative more prideful · superlative most prideful

1. CanadaScotlandUSFull of pride.

   The man is ill-tempered, envious, and above all prideful.

   2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Catelyn [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 393

   Synonyms: arrogant, disdainful, haughty

2. CanadaScotlandUSTaking pride in something.

   But, like Dad, I had certain standards that I lived by. Whatever I did, I determined to do the best I could at it. I was prideful about keeping my word and starting what I finished.

   1985, Chuck Yeager, Leo Janos, “Starting from Scratch”, in Yeager: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 9

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   Where is the candle choice? the curtained charm? / Where each accompaniment we would espy? / The ever-wanted change, all clean and dry, / The wholesome gearing of the tiny form? / The father prideful as the scene reveals? / And the fond mother smiling as she feels?

   1841 February, One of the People [pseudonym], “The Palace-Mother. […]”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine for 1841, volume VIII, number LXXXVI, Edinburgh: William Tait, […], →OCLC, page 110, column 1

   When the English fascist Oswald Mosley’s gangs marched through the Jewish East End of London in 1936, they shouted, “Down with the Yids.” Throughout history, plenty of other Jew haters have used the term in exactly this fashion. But Tottenham fans actually apply the moniker to themselves in a complimentary, prideful way.

   2004, Franklin Foer, “How Soccer Explains the Jewish Question”, in How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 78