hubris
excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
Origin of hubris
1- Also hybris.
Other words from hubris
- hu·bris·tic, adjective
- non·hu·bris·tic, adjective
- un·hu·bris·tic, adjective
- Compare sophrosyne.
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How to use hubris in a sentence
He won re-election twice as governor of New York, and had the hubris to run for a fourth term before being defeated in 1994.
Mario Cuomo, a Frustrating Hero to Democrats, Is Dead at 82 | Eleanor Clift | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat were his weaknesses as a military commander: was it hubris?
The hubris of that position did so much to create and compound these problems.
Is It Just Me or Is the World Exploding? So Why Isn’t Obama Doing More? | Michael Tomasky | July 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCan Clinton help find the elusive middle ground in American foreign policy between the hubris of Bush and the reluctance of Obama?
Downes disparages this as hubris, “man too big for his boots.”
Rackstraw Downes’s Art and Essays Are Two Sides of the Same Genius | Bill Morris | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Or was even as noble a mind as his not proof against the overweening hubris to which a despotic genius has so often succumbed?
India, Old and New | Sir Valentine ChirolEvery year He waxes too strong and commits "hubris," and such sin has its proper punishment.
Euripedes and His Age | Gilbert MurrayEach Year arrives, waxes great, commits the sin of hubris, and then is slain.
Five Stages of Greek Religion | Gilbert MurrayHer hubris was in part, at all events, the result of ignorance.
Before the War | Viscount Richard Burton Haldane
British Dictionary definitions for hubris
hybris
/ (ˈhjuːbrɪs) /
pride or arrogance
(in Greek tragedy) an excess of ambition, pride, etc, ultimately causing the transgressor's ruin
Origin of hubris
1Derived forms of hubris
- hubristic or hybristic, adjective
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