hubris
See also: húbris
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris, “insolence, sexual outrage”).
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hubris (countable and uncountable, plural hubrises)
- Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods).
- 1997, John M. Connor, “The Global Lysine Price-Fixing Conspiracy of 1992-1995”, in Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 19, number 2, page 426:
- Antitrust prosecutors target big companies that exude hubris.
- 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on Donald Trump’s presidency”, in The Observer[1]:
- One would have thought that even Trump, despite all his hubris and egotism, would know better than to jump feet first into America’s most sensitive issue: racial division.
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:hubris.
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excessive pride or arrogance
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Further reading edit
- “hubris”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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hubris f (uncountable)