pridesome
English
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editpridesome (comparative more pridesome, superlative most pridesome)
- Characterised or marked by pride
- 2003, Lynn Abbey, Thieves' World:
- Chance shoved his mug over in front of his apprentice, who bobbed his head in gratitude. "Well done!" Chance said, and immediately diverted his attention from the pridesome youth.
- 2009, John B. Olson, Powers:
- Raw hatred beat down, tearing through the last shreds of her frantic prayers. She was too weak, wretched. A pridesome, wailful sinner playing the harlot with the road.
- 2010, Roger Lee Scott, Letters from the Hills:
- If there's a solution that's gadgetical, please let us know.I know yore time costs money and we kin pay. We ain't freeloaders after all. The Clodhoppers are a pridesome group, and we pay our own way.
- 2014, Alison Leonard, Heavenly Lilies:
- 'Or maybe,' he went on, speaking from his boulder as from a pulpit, 'you need to beware of the post-pridesome fall.'