hubristic

adjective

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as in narcissistic

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Recent Examples of hubristic By chance, Rhaena arrives at the Gullet on dragonback just in time to make the same hubristic mistake as her sister and her cousin, all suffering from the delusion that the war needs them. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 June 2026 The Iraq War’s neoconservative architects suffered from a hubristic faith in American power and their own righteousness. — George Packer, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026 But the arguments that AI will take over tasks and that will allow people to be more fully human is terribly mistaken and overtly hubristic. — Caleb Harris, Austin American Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026 In hindsight, that moment of hubristic braggadocio may have provoked the wrath of the retail gods. — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025 In our own history, the failures of the Vietnam and Iraq wars owed less to insufficient brawn than to arrogance, cultural blindness, and the hubristic dismissal of diplomacy as weakness. — Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025 The seminal story of hubristic man’s creation of intelligence, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, arose from the voice of a 19-year-old woman. — Adam Verner september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 The hubristic nature of the expedition that follows, and the landscapes captured, call to mind a very different Herzog title. — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hubristic
  1. narcissistic
  2. egocentric
  3. conceited
  4. vainglorious
  5. egotistic
  6. boastful
  7. egoistic
  8. smug
Adjective
  • A step in the right direction for getting past this would be to remind yourself that your mother is mentally ill and narcissistic.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 19 July 2026
  • Trained as a solicitor 26 years ago, Amrit has built a parallel practice supporting victims of narcissistic abuse, coercive control and violence against women and young girls.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of narcissistic
Adjective
  • This preemptive caretaking also prevents people from growing out of egocentric thinking.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • It is used in systems like EgoMimic and EMMA to train manipulation policies from egocentric human data.
    — Rushil Agarwal, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Definition of egocentric
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  • Meanwhile, Johnson reprises his role as Moana's bantering reluctant partner, the shapeshifting trickster demigod Maui, alongside Jemaine Clement again voicing the conceited giant crustacean Tamatoa.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
  • Avoid Burying Praise in Negatives To avoid making children too conceited, parents might bury praise in the midst of negatives.
    — Wayne Parker, Parents, 8 Mar. 2026
Definition of conceited
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  • Claire’s elective death therefore remains a problematic choice for some viewers, an act of vainglorious selfishness from a woman who was never terribly nice to begin with.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026
  • Melodramatic and vainglorious, moody and capricious, a fidgety, neurotic hypochondriac, Stalin was a bundle of appalling contradictions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026
Definition of vainglorious
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  • Éanna Hardwicke, meanwhile, is similarly impressive as the hothead whose national pride manifests itself in the most egotistical ways.
    — Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • Is this the same guy who Real Madrid fans think is too posh to press, too egotistical to work for his team-mates, too distracted by fame to bleed for the shirt?
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 23 June 2026
Definition of egotistic
Adjective
  • Defense witnesses pointed to boastful teens, fireworks-like flashes and uncertain ignition points, with an expert arguing that fireworks were the likely cause and that prosecutors lack proof that a lighter sparked the blaze.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
  • Chatter about Azik’s famous delens abounds, as does boastful talk about how Monica Bellucci’s family hails from the same part of Nalchik.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
Definition of boastful
Adjective
  • Three hundred high school players gather at a remote facility to compete in ruthless trials where only one will emerge as the world’s greatest and most egoistic striker.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 Feb. 2026
Definition of egoistic
Adjective
  • Historian Sandgruber describes how Alois Hitler wrote his 1895 letters in a deeply smug, anti-clerical manner that overestimated his abilities.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
  • Li at times plays Cola with a smug impetuousness that belies her naivety about this world to a satisfying degree.
    — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 17 June 2026
Definition of smug

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