hubristic
pronunciation
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Word Origin
- hubristic (adj.)
- also hybristic, 1831, from Greek hybristikos "given to wantonness, insolent," from hybrizein, related to hybris (see hubris).
Example
- 1. He would later admit this was hubristic .
- 2. The book presents much hypocrisy and not a little hubristic behaviour .
- 3. By comparison , to sit and watch tv or wallow in my own hubristic complaints seems unbelievably dumb .
- 4. It was a terrible miscalculation : rather than bow to a hubristic company , the government banished it from the tender process .
- 5. Chief executives often become isolated and hubristic failing to gather enough information from subordinates to make good decisions and believing that anything they think has to be true .