prideful
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Knoxville was a small but prideful city at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
This is not the time to be prideful about how much stress and responsibility you can take on.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026
The depictions of Klingons have shifted over the years, but it’s clear Takei is invoking the more brutal, prideful and authoritarian version introduced in the original series in the 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 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
Shin remembers a stoutly built, prideful twelve-year-old named Ryu Hak Chul.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
Vocabulary lists containing prideful
"The Ugly One," Vocabulary from Chapters 1-5
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