hubris
(hjuːbrɪs )
uncountable noun
If you accuse someone of hubris, you are accusing them of arrogant pride. [formal]
It was an act of hubris that was to cost him dear.
Synonyms: pride, vanity, arrogance, conceit
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Collocations:
act of hubris
The end (the monster, the fall) was, it seems, contained in the beginning (the tinkerer's act of hubris, the unnatural coupling).
The Times Literary Supplement
It was an act of hubris that might well have provoked the police to be extra thorough next time.
Times, Sunday Times
It was an act of hubris that was to cost him dear.
Times, Sunday Times
Commissioning one seems an act of hubris.
The Times Literary Supplement
Such an act may be referred to as an act of hubris, or the person committing the act may be said to be hubristic.
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- prove the undoing of
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- provide a counterpoint
- provide a critique
- provide a cushion
- provide a defence
- provide a description
- provide a deterrent
- provide advice
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- provide a grounding