prideful
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Knoxville was a small but prideful city at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
"I used to be prideful and probably would've looked down on somebody coming out of prison," she admits.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 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
Tonsures, pigtails, head completely shaved but for a single forelock, long sides drawn into a queue with a raffish short-cut roach in the middle—all of it was prideful and abhorrent to the Pilgrims.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing prideful
"The Ugly One," Vocabulary from Chapters 1-5
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