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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a prideful" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has an excessive sense of pride or self-importance.
Example: "His prideful attitude often alienated his colleagues, making it difficult for him to work in a team."
Alternatives: "an arrogant" or "a conceited".
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I'm a prideful person, but pride can get you in trouble sometimes.
The weights of fashion and inherited culture are, of course, quite different; likewise the burdens of dictatorship versus those of democratic society, or the force of pride amid poverty versus a prideful ennui.
He's a prideful man.
That's a prideful bunch.
Under Saddam Hussein, it was a prideful Sunni tribal area.
Will a prideful city finally confront its past?
With a prideful emphasis he called the group "the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir".
They're such a prideful country and they're playing the biggest tournament in their home country.
The Reverend cannot resist a prideful star turn at the pulpit.
Not surprisingly, Texans, a prideful lot who take a brighter view of things, are indignant.
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This statement was a rare admission of fault by a prideful, post-apartheid government.
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