Noun : civic pride. ,His art collection was the pride of the family. ,This bull is the pride of the herd. ,in the pride of adulthood. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : She prides herself on her tennis. From Dictionary.com.
The problem is not the absence of pride in country, but the excesses of pridefulness in power. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario's Role in Confederation] Reference
There is more than a whiff of pridefulness in the president's account of his own foreign policy. From Wordnik.com. [What Happened to Obama’s Armageddon?] Reference
She admired their keenness of wit, lack of pridefulness, love of practical jokes, slyness in a fight. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
I read your previous article on this, and had to laugh at the pridefulness of some of my ‘peers’. From Wordnik.com. [On Teens, and the Fact Their Writing Sucks « Whatever] Reference
I wondered if he had—in a moment of pridefulness—and if that was, in part, what was fueling his distress. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight] Reference
But I'm a pretty visual person, so the pleasure isn't about owning this house or pridefulness about its appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
In the face of such pridefulness and denial, no one would give very good odds for such a relationship succeeding, would they?. From Wordnik.com. [Paul White: For Whites Only] Reference
Is your pridefulness so consuming that you are willing to sacrifice a Democratic candidate to show everyone how angry you are that Hillary conceeded?. From Wordnik.com. [The View From Unity - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
It was Grace Paley, a friend to my piles of drafts and rejection letters from publishers, who finally said: "You know, you have a certain fight and pridefulness in you not unlike your mother's.". From Wordnik.com. [Leora Skolkin-Smith explains the backstory to her first novel, Edges] Reference
David is a great story teller and shares them not with any hint of pridefulness but with a child like wonder, enthusiasm and a smile to match that broadcasts: "Listen to this, isn't it great to help people?". From Wordnik.com. [Mark Goulston, M.D.: Putting the 'Care' Back in Health Care -- the UCLA Transformation] Reference
Not brazened-it-out, or wrapped-himself-in-pridefulness (the surest sign of struggle), simply free, by what conjunction of insight or ignorance I am still at a loss to imagine, from the universal misery of fitting-in - the-body. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poems] Reference
In her judgment, this reflects a kind of pridefulness. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
And i surmisal there's ever a payment on pridefulness wherever you haw be. From Wordnik.com. [www.awesomeblogs.com] Reference
The pridefulness surrounding chickens concerned Vanmechelen, 44, who raised chickens as a child. From Wordnik.com. [poststar.com RSS] Reference
When you call that remeron effects of interval over your pridefulness, think about it rationally, what's currently to forget annual of? trust me, it will help. From Wordnik.com. [Wii-volution] Reference
When you lift that remeron face tremor of failure over your pridefulness, think about it rationally, what's lately to crawl jittery of? trust me, it will help. From Wordnik.com. [Wii-volution] Reference
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During the years that I lived among the Bin Laden family in Saudi Arabia, Osama came to exemplify everything that repelled me in that opaque and harsh country: the unbending dogma that ruled all our lives, the arrogance and pridefulness of the Saudis and their lack of compassion for people who didn't share their beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Islamist Monitor]
But two chapters, laid end to end, alarm the reader; and a hundred chapters drive the reader into self-protective hypnagogy, into a Darwinian dream state in which bits of story slide through the battered mind like straws to grasp, though not for more than an instant can the fact be avoided that never in this vast desert superba, never in this overweening pridefulness of infodump, does the author blink, never does he relent into telling his tale at a pace human beings can breathe to. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
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