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hubrishu‧bris /ˈhjuːbrɪs/ noun [uncountable]  hubrisOrigin: 1800-1900 Greek hybris - But what is notable about the Koffler scam is the sheer, hilarious hubris of it.
- His hubris cost him whatever slim chance he had of actually pulling it off.
- How often we have witnessed such hubris, and how loudly we have guffawed.
- The power to re-create them inspires a touch of hubris in geophysicists.
- They ran government trading at Salomon Brothers during the 1980s and early 1990s, ruling with swagger, bravado and hubris.
- This can not be called isolationism, but it is a strange combination of hubris and indifference.
- Yet the argument against Ashdown's triumphalism has to stop short of encouraging the same fatal hubris among Labour politicians.
literary too much pride |