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hubristic
adjective as in cocky
adjective as in overconfident
Example Sentences
The hubris and contempt for truth flaunted in their pre-election haste to install an ideological foe of LGBTQ rights on the court have now become a trigger.
It’s a video game so beloved that remaking it is a work of hubris, bound only to disappoint diehard fans in an effort to draw in new players.
In wisely sidestepping the hubristic folly of trying to sum up his own time, he achieved a sort of timelessness.
Hubristic wielders of rationality are dubbed “fragilistas” (Alan Greenspan, at one point, is labeled an “uberfragilista”).
The italicized phrase isn't exactly a hallmark of the sort of hubristic soothsayer Abrams seems to describe.
Gracious in victory, he was elegantly non-hubristic in his evaluation of the Republican gains in this election.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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