Crossword-Solution: PROUD 5 letters, 110 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Proud superl. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense
Proud superl. Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating
one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.
Proud superl. Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem;
exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.
Proud superl. Giving reason or occasion for pride or
self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent;
admirable; ostentatious.
Proud superl. Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to
the females of some animals.

We have 110 clues for the answer “PROUD”

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"Death be not ___ . . . ": Donne 1 answer
"___ Mary" (Creedence Clearwater Revivial hit) 1 answer
"___ Mary" (song famously covered by Tina Turner) 1 answer
Adjective for Tarquin 1 answer
Boastful, perhaps 1 answer
Button-popping condition 1 answer
Conscious of one's own dignity 1 answer
Deeply gratified. 1 answer
Far from ashamed 1 answer
Feeling pleased with oneself 1 answer
Feeling puffed up 1 answer
Full of hubris 1 answer
Having self-respect. 1 answer
Highly gratifying 1 answer
Kvelling, say 1 answer
Like Mr. Darcy 1 answer
Like a Peacock Act like a 1 answer
Like a new dad 1 answer
Like a new parent 1 answer
Like many parents at graduations 1 answer
Like new grandparents 1 answer
Like new parents 1 answer
Like parents at school plays, hopefully 1 answer
Like parents of straight-A students 1 answer
Like the Marines 1 answer
Of high estate. 1 answer
Of lofty dignity 1 answer
Opposite of ashamed 1 answer
Parents when their punk kid gets rich 1 answer
Partner of pleased 1 answer
Pleased with one's feats 1 answer
Projecting above a surface 1 answer
Reminder about university being complacent 1 answer
Self-esteeming 1 answer
Self-respecting. 1 answer
Smug as can be 1 answer
Tarquin the ___ 1 answer
Tarquin the ___ (final king of Rome) 1 answer
Unwilling to accept charity 1 answer
With head held high 1 answer
With head high. 1 answer
__ as a peacock 1 answer
__ as a peacock (vain) 1 answer
feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth 1 answer
or being a reason for pride 1 answer
Standing out – haughty 1 answer
Out and ___ 2 answers
Standing tall 2 answers
Word in a Marines slogan 2 answers
strutting 2 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with PROUD (5)

Now, then, what we have to do is to hoist the redskin on to it and leave her here to drown.” It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on the rock; she was too proud to offer a vain resistance.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshon the wealth of _Ormus_ and of _Ind_, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showrs on her Kings _Barbaric_ Pearl & Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais’d To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue Vain Warr with Heav’n, and by success untaught His proud imaginations thus displaid.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
She was a field hand, and a whipping is the penalty of not being in the field at sunrise, unless a slave has special permission from his or her master to the contrary—a permission which they seldom get, and one that gives to him that gives it the proud name of being a kind master.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
But when all was said, he had come up from the sea himself, had built up a proud little business with no capital but his own skill and foresight, and had proved himself a man.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with PROUD (3)

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Anonymous Holy Bible: New International Version
Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Cowa…
Matthew Lewis The Monk
Damn, you're good,' he said and rolled onto his back. The man wasn't much for flowery speech, Alesandra thought with a smile. It didn't matter. She was arrogantly proud of herself because she'd pleased him. Perhaps she should give him a little praise too. She rolled onto her side to face him, put her hand on his chest directly over his pounded heart, and whispered. 'You're good, too. 'Tis the truth, you're the best I've ever had.' He opened his eyes to look at her. 'I'm the o…
Julie Garwood Castles
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 108 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).