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Recent Examples of prideful Employees tend to react negatively when engaging with prideful leaders, and feeling ignored can impact loyalty, engagement and productivity. Richard Polak, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025 As this lunar phase takes place in Leo — one of the most expressive and prideful in the zodiac — the energy really cranks up. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 2 May 2025 In the novel, the moneyed and prideful Darcy’s aloofness betrays his uncertainty over whether to consort with those of lower station and lesser breeding. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025 This is a prideful team that knows it was dealt a bad hand this year. Colton Pouncy, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for prideful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prideful
Adjective
  • Our more than 18,000 Bombardier employees are proud to welcome this new, important customer to our family.
    Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • But despite everything, we were driven by passion and the desire to achieve results, and many Italians who lived there as immigrants were proud of us.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Her larger-than-life ego and past as a shaman make Player 044 come off as arrogant and selfish, getting under just about everyone's skin.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 July 2025
  • In 2022, Ackles joined the cast of Prime Video's The Boys as arrogant superhero Soldier Boy.
    Brianne Tracy, People.com, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • The symphony drives to a triumphant, satisfying conclusion.
    Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 11 July 2025
  • Australian hip-hop heavyweights Hilltop Hoods are gearing up for a triumphant return to the road in 2026 with their Never Coming Home national arena tour, supporting their upcoming album Fall From the Light.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • Santa Monica was a town in flux when Miller was in high school at the turn of the millennium: a Berkeley meets Beverly Hills where haughty affluence was rapidly eclipsing the Birkenstocks and counterculture bumper stickers.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
  • This information doesn’t make the prospect of leaving her home painless, but Ruth approaches it with a haughty dignity that soon becomes familiar.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • In Superman, Bennett steps into the shoes of Steve Lombard, the Daily Planet's smug sports reporter.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 June 2025
  • One of Ferrell’s biggest and best movies was this hilarious racing spoof, which followed the rise and fall and rise of a smug champion racer, his complicated friendship with best pal and fellow racer John C. Reilly, and his rivalry with an effete, snotty Frenchman played by Sacha Baron Cohen.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • The sharpshooter is ecstatic to be in Charlotte — and sees his game being particularly well-rounded, beyond his prowess behind the arc.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2025
  • Most players would be ecstatic to be drafted in the top five, but Bailey has been a major storyline throughout the entire draft process.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Trump has even been disdainful or dismissive of the United States’ traditional allies, such as Mexico and Argentina.
    Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2017
  • Wise minds inside the Trump administration will hopefully choose to drop a suit first introduced during by a Biden administration reflexively disdainful of big.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Such an obvious way to exhibit his egotistical personality.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2025
  • Responding to questions from defense lawyer Teny Geragos, Jane agreed that Combs became more apologetic and attentive, less egotistical and cold.
    NBC News, NBC news, 13 June 2025

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“Prideful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prideful. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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