| 单词 | proud |
| 释义 | proud 1. a. < goaded the proud baronage — J.R.Green > < his cold and proud nature — A. Conan Doyle > b. < proud to have such men — Sherwood Anderson > < a proud boy … he has made something with his own hands — Better Homes & Gardens > — often used with of < proud of his success > < a record to be proud of > c. chiefly Midland < we'd be proud to have you stay for supper > d. < too proud to fight — Woodrow Wilson > < brought a proud … efficiency to everything she did — Fred Majdalany > 2. a. < proud princes and humble peasants — Vicki Baum > < proud old castles — E.O.Hauser > b. < a proud heritage > < our proudest feat — Joyce Cary > < his proudest moment — Paul Pickrel > 3. a. of an animal < a proud steed > b. of a body of water < the proud stream > c. (1) of granulation tissue < proud growth in an old wound > (2) of a plant, Britain < proud corn > 4. < a proud look > 5. chiefly dialect, of a female animal 6. a. chiefly dialect Britain < proud … jointings may have to be pared down — Choice of Careers: Furniture Manufacturing > < proud base edges — F.W.Mann > b. of a cutting tool Synonyms: < proud to publish a group of excellent reference works — Saturday Review > < he was too proud to admit failure and withdraw — Aldous Huxley > < he had a mild impersonal manner and was proud of having no rancor for any of the criminals he arrested — Morley Callaghan > < she is proud of everything of which she should be ashamed — H.T.Buckle > < a proud and objectionable bearing toward colleagues > arrogant implies a claiming for oneself, often domineeringly or offensively, more consideration, importance, or worth than is warranted < he was not, however, disagreeably arrogant or contemptuous in a cutting way as I am afraid I had been at that age — Edmund Wilson > < vain, arrogant, blustering, trying to keep leadership of his associates — Amy Loveman > < an arrogant disregard for the popular will — D.D.McKean > haughty stresses an obvious consciousness of superior position or character and an obvious scorn of things regarded as beneath one < supercilious and haughty, they turn this way and that, like the dowagers of very aristocratic families at a plebeian evening party — Aldous Huxley > < a cold and haughty stare > lordly implies behavior or bearing befitting a nobleman but can also suggest pure pompousness or an arrogant display of power or magnificence < these lordly archbishops who once ranked second to the emperor himself — Claudia Cassidy > < she had collected — or rather had received — almost with the air of a domestic, four-fifty per week from a lordly foreman in a shoe factory — a man who, in distributing the envelopes, had the manner of a prince doling out favors to a servile group of petitioners — Theodore Dreiser > < a lordly condescension > insolent implies an improper and manifest contemptuousness, suggesting a will to insult or affront < vile food, vile beyond belief, slapped down before their sunken faces by insolent waiters — Katherine A. Porter > < searching the crowd until he found the face from which that insolent jeering came — O.E Rölvaag > < an insolent familiarity > overbearing suggests a bullying or tyrannical disposition or manifest preemption of power, or an intolerable insolence < backcountry militiamen whose rough overbearing manners sorely tried the Indians' patience — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < he was arrogant, overbearing, conceited, and passionate — without any rank which could excuse pride, or any acquirement that could justify conceit — Anthony Trolope > < whose temper was so overbearing, that he could not restrain himself from speaking disrespectfully of that young lady at this desk — Charles Dickens > supercilious stresses an outward appearance of patronizing haughtiness though it also suggests inner conceit and often not only scorn but also incivility < he looks upon the whole struggle with the supercilious contempt of an indifferent spectator — Leslie Stephen > < his dislike of me gleamed in his blue eyes and in his supercilious, cold smile — Rose Macaulay > disdainful implies a more contemptuous and more manifest scorn than supercilious < nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile the short and simple annals of the poor — Thomas Gray > < a little vanity and a little sensuality, says a disdainful French moralist, is about all that enters into the makeup of the average man — Irving Babbitt > |
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