prideful
Example Sentences
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The buildings that housed a prideful labor force are vandalized, colonized by squatters or boarded up.
From Los Angeles Times
Pathetic and prideful, yet ultimately a principled father, Oscar tries to revitalize his nonexistent career by encouraging one of his students to pursue poetry.
From Los Angeles Times
And the idea that what we think is right trumps everything and that our children are just extensions of ourselves, accessories, things to be judged in relation to us, as either prideful or shameful.
From Los Angeles Times
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
Reese, a passionate, prideful forward, immediately got up to yell at her shorter rival.
From Salon
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