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- adjective Of, or relating to
hubris ; overly arrogant - adjective Displaying
hubris (as a personality characteristic)
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Examples
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I know it's a bit late for a first swing at such an exercise, but I know I can knock this one out of the park; and also for the first time I am doing real, thorough research (ie, I'm actually reading it) and I do still have long-term hubristic goals I'm keeping close to my vest, and all in all I'm just very excited about this paper.
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Is there a judge anywhere who could resist granting a prize to a writer who uses the word hubristic?
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Perhaps "hubristic" is a better word, as to the long-term consequences of some of their activities.
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A believer might counter that to attempt to create God would be the worst kind of hubristic folly, and blasphemy to boot.
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A believer might counter that to attempt to create God would be the worst kind of hubristic folly, and blasphemy to boot.
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They displayed the "arrogance of power," they were "hubristic," and so on.
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However, my fundamental argument against invasion and overthrow has always been that without a clear and convincing act of aggression by Iraq, it is the worst kind of hubristic folly to put a US army on the ground in the middle east so soon after 9/11 under circumstances that appear to make Osama bin Laden’s worst accusations appear to be true.
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If the latter endeavor has, since postmodernism, seemed a kind of hubristic folly, "The
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The Deaf Pontificator, like the blind art collector who paid 65 million dollars for a Picasso that he'll never see, might qualify as apt symbols for this age of hubristic excess.
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The Deaf Pontificator, like the blind art collector who paid 65 million dollars for a Picasso that he'll never see, might qualify as apt symbols for this age of hubristic excess.
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