Pride
Verbs
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be proud etc. adj.
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put a good face on
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look one in the face
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stalk abroad, perk oneself up
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think no small beer of oneself
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presume, swagger, strut
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rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head
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hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, bear like the Turk no rival near the throne" [Pope], carry with a high hand
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ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse
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set one's back up, bridle, toss the head
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give oneself airs etc. (assume) [Undue assumption of superiority.] Insolence
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boast etc. Boasting. pride oneself on
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glory in, take a pride in
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pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself
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stand upon, be proud of
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put a good face on
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not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin
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not think small beer of oneself etc. (vanity) Vanity.
Adjectives
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dignified
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stately
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proud, proud-crested
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lordly, baronial
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lofty-minded
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highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned. haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown
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vainglorious
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purse-proud, fine
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proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer
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bloated with pride. supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential
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arrogant etc. [Undue assumption of superiority.] Insolence
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unblushing etc. Vanity. stiff, stiff-necked
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starch
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perked stuck-up
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in buckram, strait-laced
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prim etc. (affected) Affectation. on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes
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on stilts
Phrases
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disdains the shadow which he treads on at disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon" [Coriolanis]
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pride in their port, defiance in their eye" [Goldsmith].