PROUDLY Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

proudly

adverb

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Recent Examples of proudly At weddings, brides proudly wear a heavy matrimonial collar, an accessory more often associated with the stockade, while grooms strap carrots to their crotches and waggle them at goats. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 High school student Bella Dubrovsky beamed proudly next to her tray of artfully frosted sugar cookies. — Laina Gustafson, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2026 Sampaio proudly noted the performance is the first NFL halftime show headlined by two openly LGBTQ+ men. — Raymond Braun, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026 New York is getting roasted for an awkward giveaway T-shirt gaffe, made funnier by the team proudly posting the evidence on social media. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Arturia is adding to its Freak line of proudly weird digital synths with the MiniFreak 49. — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2026 Sigil Wen, an AI developer who’s partnered with Nvidia to create AI that runs locally on a laptop, proudly held up his HP OmniBook Ultra. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026 Posters proudly announced that health providers exchange approximately 22 million patient records each day through Care Everywhere. — Alex Rosenblat — Calmatters, STAT, 15 Oct. 2026 Hollywood should be a city where Jewish residents can live openly, safely and proudly, without intimidation, hatred or antisemitism. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2026

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Enter Flanagan, who boldly set out to reinvent Carrie for the 21st century.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026
Her account opens with an acute examination of the paradoxes of willing (an example of how boldly this memoir follows its philosophical interests).

— James Wood, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of boldly

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And though Reid does his best with the brazenly flirtatious, casually chauvinistic Rapp, Yaga badly overplays its hand with his womanizing.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026
Greenspan’s cooking is equal parts nostalgic and swashbuckling, with a menu that brazenly reimagines foods most Jewish Americans hold near and dear.

— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of brazenly

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But among their best qualities, Dick Riordan was arrogantly confident, Jim Hahn had a steady hand on the tiller, Antonio Villaraigosa was tireless and passionate, Eric Garcetti was a long-range thinker on earthquakes, water and energy.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
But the majority in 2019 said federal courts aren’t competent to decide when gerrymandering goes too far, even when the culprits arrogantly boast about it, as some did in Tallahassee.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of arrogantly

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Hazel swung the lamp in her hand and looked contemptuously at Ginny, surrounded by the naturalists and the teachers, who whispered encouragement.

— Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
Men sneered contemptuously at them, while teenagers used their names as insults.

— Mikhail Zygar, Vanity Fair, 7 Jan. 2026

Definition of contemptuously

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