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Meanings of prideful in English

Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.

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Being joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success.

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Usage of prideful in English
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Young men, chests puffed out, swagger around the cars like prideful lions.
The whore of babylon, a memoir
2
I feared that I'd been prideful and mistaken to make him leave.
Song of the Nile
3
Cab drivers hailed him as a likely fare, to his prideful content.
Sixes and Sevens
4
Lowry regarded it as nonsense at best, prideful and blasphemous at worst.
The half-made world
5
I didn't have it; at that point I was still prideful.
Ebony
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There was no way that this prideful woman would give him such power.
The viking takes a knight
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Don't be too prideful to allow the fortunes of others to bless you.
Ebony
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He tried to pull himself up in prideful refutation, but the effort failed.
Broken to the Plow / A Novel
9
Despite how tired she was feeling, she managed a prideful smile.
The Neutronium Alchemist
10
In his autobiography, Maheu described Mooney as dynamic, prideful, and charismatic.
The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
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It was a prideful saying, and one informed with all ignorance and conceit.
The Red Axe
12
Whereat Aleck, with a prideful toss of her happy head, said:
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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The Chargers are prideful of stopping the Seahawks, and their quarterback, Russell Wilson.
Reuters
14
If people forget one's very existence it is not prideful to call them.
The Window-Gazer
15
Caleb's gentle frown was the upcast of paternal bewilderment, partly prideful, partly disconcerting.
The Quickening
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The abyss is the gate of Hell, to which the prideful are condemned.
The good son: a novel
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