Word info

hubristic

Adjective

Meaning

Of, or relating to hubris; overly arrogant.

Displaying hubris (as a personality characteristic).

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Phrases with the word

Examples

That Times tweet embodies that hubristic attitude and is indicative of the ideological conformity developing in some newsrooms where highly educated elites dominate and fail to read the tea leaves outside of their own feeds. Source: Internet

From the gutting and jiggering of bureaucracies and regulations across the board, to the hubristic assumption of all-knowingness, the man is a toxic fool. Source: Internet

Despite attempts to reconcile, senior and mid-level Taleban were hounded, a nasty, short-sighted, hubristic tactic which sowed the first seeds of insurgency. Source: Internet

I was lucky to spend a year being a smart-ass for a living, although it would be irrationally hubristic to view Internet news-aggregating and the snark-blogging fishbowl as anything more than a Dadaist experiment. Source: Internet

You think the American Empire is hubristic, xenophobic, cruel, avaricious, and murderous? Source: Internet

This is even more hubristic than a prior reference to him as “the Greta Garbo of horror,” simply because he left the public eye for years after one medium-profile appearance in a popular franchise entry. Source: Internet

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