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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
  • The protests proved conclusively that Americans will not tolerate the deployment of the U.S. military in American cities, the constant line-stepping over constitutional boundaries, the arrests of political dissenters, or the arrogant defense of police-state tactics.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
  • In Aesop’s fable, the turtle (traditionally called a tortoise, which is a type of turtle) is a winner, a perpetual underdog who defeats the arrogant hare.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • On his triumphant 10-day journey on the canal from Buffalo to New York City, when the Seneca Chief reached New York Harbor, Clinton poured a keg of water from Lake Erie into the Atlantic Ocean, symbolizing a union of two major bodies of water.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 28 June 2025
  • Lewis Capaldi has made a triumphant return to music, two years after an emotional moment at Glastonbury led to the singer taking a break from his career.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Napoleon, the pig who takes despotic control of the farm following the revolution — voiced with haughty gusto by Seth Rogen — bears an uncanny resemblance to the current occupant of the White House.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • The smug and sanctimonious tenor of their briefing makes that plain.
    Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
  • In a comedic twist, the Labrador retriever was filmed turning back to his owner during the drive, with a smug look on his face as if to boast about his comfortable spot.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • Sami Gibson, the mother who initiated the change at Curtis Elementary, was ecstatic about the playground during its opening in 2018.
    Samara Gerstle, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2025
  • Most players would be ecstatic with that statline after four quarters.
    Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 14 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
  • The men were very egotistical in this film and no one really showed up.
    Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • In the upcoming film, Oscar Isaac stars as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature (Jacob Elordi) to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 31 May 2025

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“Prideful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prideful. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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