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    prideful


    1. Josiah did many wonderful things for God and the people, but Josiah’s life had a tragic end because he became prideful and took his eyes off God


    2. Prideful passions must be replaced by compassionate humility


    3. Yet the prideful announce themselves as with a trumpet,


    4. The prideful humbled, and the haughty abased


    5. What if she was too stubborn, too angry, too bitter; too prideful to tell him? To let him know? God knows she was hinting around about marriage, but he had never thought to inquire why


    6. We do seem to be connected to the animal kingdom, but how? And with such a tremendous gap, if there is a connection what is it? What members of the animal kingdom are we closest to? Would the prideful exclusionists rather be seen to be connected to dogs, or cows? There was a time when Man would have given almost anything to be like any one of his animal totems, so why not an ape?


    7. We are so prideful at times that we refuse to hear God speaking through


    8. Whenever I feel myself become too prideful, I think of Caroline and am reminded of what is really important


    9. That alone must have been humiliating and degrading for someone so bright and prideful


    10. Vincent of Louvain – to be with the help of God a faithful copyist and not a prideful author, to write what the Fathers

    11. In front of Joey was Stralin, bleeding from the wound in his chest, but still standing looking strong and prideful like he always did


    12. “Yes, sir,” Norm said, hiding a prideful smile at the fact that his


    13. destroyed those that had become corrupt, prideful, sinful, and had


    14. Extremely Prideful ( Isaiah 10:12 & Called “The Most Proud One” and


    15. have his reputation tarnished because you’re too prideful to seek out legal representation


    16. To think that we could confine God to a particular system of theology is prideful


    17. Things that can be done anonymously and/or without stepping on prideful toes


    18. through that prideful area in his heart


    19. do the brave, stupid, prideful thing forced him to


    20. He had not the useless pride of a man who had nothing to be prideful for, like

    21. and that is an act that anyone should be prideful of


    22. I was so prideful for such a long time; I had known pain while I was living on my own,


    23. Here we see how the logic of Ulysses’ prideful I conflicts with his own wisdom, which he demonstrates so eloquently in other parts of the poem


    24. We are all born arrogant and prideful and we create conflict all throughout our lives


    25. It is true that Penelope was insane in allowing one hundred eight prideful suitors, who plot the deaths of Telemachus and Ulysses, into her house


    26. thus, it is due to their prideful madness that they found a brutal ending


    27. As he walked from the room with his wounded ego, in prideful self-defense,


    28. That infuriated me and I wanted to attack the prideful thing


    29. D’ata spat his final retaliation, opened his eyes, and cried out so that all could hear, “Lucifer, fiend, monster…diable of all that is black—at this moment I live, and I deny you this death!” In horrible recognition of its own prideful folly, the voice suddenly wailed, a horrendous and awful sound, but D’ata continued, this time to the crowd


    30. He was prideful to a fault

    31. With both boys and girls there is often a feeling of prideful expectancy, and some day you may expect to hear a joyful announcement, "Mother, oh, Mother--it's come!"


    32. “He’ s a prideful man


    33. He managed to be sincere about his religious calling without becoming prideful: all


    34. In short, we discovered that they were vessels made of ordinary human clay; so that, instead of our reverence for them being augmented by a freer intercourse, we thought less and less of them, until, poor bodies, the bit prideful lairdies were just looked down upon by our gawsie big-bellied burgesses, not a few of whom had heritable bonds on their estates


    35. He was, besides, a prideful body, and, like all of his calling, thought not a little of himself


    36. For the provost, being fresh in the dignity of his office, and naturally of a prideful turn, had addressed the parliament man as if he was under an obligation to him; and as if the council had a right to command him to get the gauger’s post, or indeed any other, for whomsoever they might apply


    37. I was cold and prideful and within myself


    38. The prideful trader wants to glory in trying to outthink the markets, to buy when everyone is selling and to sell when everyone is buying in the hopes of catching the reversal before anyone else sees it


    39. Wouldn’t he be proud if he could say, even to his secret self, that he had converted a rolling huge pool table full of fiery spheres! What a sin of pride! Worth doing penance for! But then one did many prideful things out of Love, and he loved the Lord so much and was so happy at it that he wanted everyone else to be happy too


    40. The legend has it that one of us, a good man, discovered a way to free man’s soul and intellect, to free him of bodily ills and melancholies, of deaths and transfigurations, of ill humors and senilities, and so we took on the look of lightning and blue fire and have lived in the winds and skies and hills forever after that, neither prideful nor arrogant, neither rich nor poor, passionate nor cold

    41. ,” Gadai said, sounding typically prideful


    42. I assure him I shall not be one of his accusers; I believe him governed by himself, and influenced by pure American motives, and that, if he saw the subject as I do, his bosom would burn with the same sacred fire to avenge our wrongs; and were I to hear him charged in his absence with British influence, I should repel it, notwithstanding he has told us, in a prideful manner, that he had descended from British ancestors; that, from a Shakspeare he had formed his taste, from a Locke, his mind, from a Chatham, his politics, from a Sydney his patriotism, from a Tillotson his religion


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    Synonyms for "prideful"

    exultant exulting jubilant prideful rejoicing triumphal triumphant disdainful haughty imperious lordly overbearing sniffy supercilious swaggering

    "prideful" definitions

    having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy


    joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success