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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are prideful" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe individuals or groups who exhibit a sense of pride or arrogance.
Example: "Some leaders are prideful, believing they are always right and dismissing the opinions of others."
Alternatives: "are arrogant" or "are conceited".
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are prideful
adjective
Full of pride; haughty, arrogant.
Exact(7)
But the men are prideful and snappish.
"It's sort of a necessary evil, but guys are prideful.
"Then there are prideful defenders — people who aren't going to let you just score 50 points on them.
The humor is broad, particularly the sendups of foreign leaders, who seem frozen in 1970s stereotypes: Austrians are stern sticklers for discipline and protocol; Latin Americans are prideful but childish, easily won over with alcohol and fractured Spanish phrases.
Then there are prideful souvenirs like national flags, and snarky ones like the mold made by the British designer Lydia Leith, which produces a quivering Queen Elizabeth Jell-O head.
Or again, it may be that Hobbes's state of nature would be peaceful but for the presence of persons (just a few, or perhaps all, to some degree) whose passions overrule their calmer judgments; who are prideful, spiteful, partial, envious, jealous, and in other ways prone to behave in ways that lead to war.
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They were prideful, but not officially Pride-related.
Pride is also a lot of hot air, but being prideful and being proud aren't exactly the same thing.
AIPAC is prideful about its influence.
Soriano was not being testy, he was being prideful.
She could see why Evan thought she was prideful — but that wasn't the right word.
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