Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Most self-satisfied ", 8 letters:
proudest

Alternative clues for the word proudest

Word definitions for proudest in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proud \Proud\, a. [Compar. Prouder ; superl. Proudest .] [OE. proud, prout, prud, prut, AS. pr[=u]t; akin to Icel. pr[=u eth]r stately, handsome, Dan. prud handsome. Cf. Pride .] Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: proud ); ''most proud.''

Usage examples of proudest.

And to a degree he had succeeded, although one of his proudest achievements, a bill for the establishment of religious freedom, a subject of extreme controversy, was not passed by the legislature until several years hence, after he departed for France.

Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt.

The proudest families are content to lose, in the darkness of the middle ages, the tree of their pedigree, which, however deep and lofty, must ultimately rise from a plebeian root.

That he had pressed doggedly for a greater part in the war by the French navy would stand as one of his own proudest efforts, and with reason, given what happened at Yorktown.

To his dying day he would be proudest of all of having achieved peace.

It was one of the proudest efforts of his life, and he was involved in every aspect, organizing the curriculum, choosing the site, and designing the buildings.

The one just might be the future of Cormanthor, while the other was one of the most haughty and headstrong of its old­est, proudest Houses—and its heir to boot.