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Purse-proud

Purse-proud \Purse"-proud`\, a. Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.

Wiktionary
purse-proud

a. haughty in the possession of riches.

WordNet
purse-proud

adj. proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction)

Usage examples of "purse-proud".

So throwing himself back in his arm-chair, he said, with an arrogant and purse-proud air, —“Let me beg of you not to hesitate in naming your wishes.

I mean a purse-proud villain in Russell Square, whom I knew without a shilling, and whom I pray and hope to see a beggar as he was when I befriended him.

Briggs’s brother, a radical hatter and grocer, called his sister a purse-proud aristocrat, because she would not advance a part of her capital to stock his shop: and she would have done so most likely, but that their sister, a dissenting shoemaker’s lady, at variance with the hatter and grocer, who went to another chapel, showed how their brother was on the verge of bankruptcy, and took possession of Briggs for a while.

From purse-proud temple to archi­tectural horror to national treasure in a little over a century.