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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM 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 ...
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n. overbearing pride or presumption
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Hubris is a solo album by American jazz pianist and composer Richard Beirach recorded in 1977 and released on the ECM label.
Usage examples of hubris.
The Heir-Empress was an Aberrant, and the Empress in her hubris still seemed intent on putting her on the throne.
In terror of hubris, Isaac sought any alternative than to believe what was looking more and more like the truth: that he had solved the problem of mathematic representation, quantification, of crisis energy.
But hubris engendered his one fatal misstep: his attempt to change the Russian diet, mandating Texas Bar-B-Q in place of such staples as borsht and potato pancakes.
In my dream of murdering Clint Eastwood, my own hubris is both punished and rewarded by the realization that he is intimately and permanently related to the most positive and nurturing elements in the dream and in myself.
It would be the grandest party ever held on Farfara, and the merchants who ruled that ancient planet spared no trouble or expense in creating an air of magnificence to match the magnificent hubris of the men and women who dared to enter the Vild.
She smiled smugly, a thirty-one-year-old in love with a twenty-five-year-old, unaware that she was once again flirting with hubris.
Rhee Soon-Ka sat, unobserved, taking notes, for this was the kind of day she had long anticipated: as a modern Aeschylus, she knew what hubris was.
Hubris presumes to direct the gods and says that a man is above the status of men.
In an unprecedented act of hubris, before he could reflect upon it and conjure up a congerie of reasons why such an act would be unwise and an accompanying set of scenarios in which he came off the fool or the buffoon, he had telephoned Lisa.
And those Fedraysha blasphemers, who hunted down gods and killed them wherever they found them—on Yonada, on Beta, on Avros, on Gamma Trianguli—they took advantage of her hubris, used her as their puppet to spread their evils, to destroy every vestige of the Yonadan way of life as they had destroyed the Oracle.
To strike at and destroy such a thing, even in self-defense, was blasphemous in its disproportionality, appalling in its hubris.
Adults and children alike, we kneeled in the icy cavern about the bowl with the flame, entreating forgiveness for the hubris which had angered them.
I would not have recognized hubris if it bit me in the gluteus maximus.
But until that time, the Hubrises were vulnerable—and that vulnerability had abruptly been exploited.
But until that time, the Hubrises were vulnerable -and that vulnerability had abruptly been exploited.