Crossword-Solution: PRIDEFUL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prideful | a. | Full of pride; haughty. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “PRIDEFUL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like the habitats of lions? | 1 answer |
| Self-satisfied | 6 answers |
| Stuck up | 12 answers |
| puritanical | 13 answers |
| stuck-up | 13 answers |
| puffed up | 24 answers |
| Bloated | 29 answers |
| Perky | 44 answers |
| Puffed | 44 answers |
| Ostentatious | 65 answers |
| Haughty | 73 answers |
| Positive | 77 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRIDEFUL (5)
The commonality, however, were his greatest adversaries; for he was, notwithstanding the spareness of his abilities, a prideful creature, taking no interest in their hamely affairs, and seldom visiting the aged or the sick among them.
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.
With the gray dawn growing in the room, she rose, turned to Mara, and said, in prideful humility, “You have conquered.
People read the news a trifle breathlessly, reflected with a sigh of contentment on the invincible British Navy, and with a little gust of prideful triumph upon the Expeditionary force--ready to the last burnished button of each man's tunic--and proceeded quietly with their usual avocations.
Yes, that was something! But, as habitude does inevitably bring a certain staleness, so, as the pile of little clipped reports grew bigger Missy's first prideful swell in them grew less.
Quotes with PRIDEFUL (3)
The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.
The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I remember, when I'm bored with Him, and antsy, and sick of brushing my teeth next to the same god every morning, I hope I remember not to leave Him. I am not so worried that He will leave me. The Bible, after all, is full of stories about God sticking with His Bride, no matter how stiff-necked and prideful and unfaithful she may be.
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1996–2015).