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单词 hubris
释义
hubrishu‧bris /ˈhjuːbrɪs/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINhubris
Origin:
1800-1900 Greek hybris
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • 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
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