hubrid
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hubris, from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris, “insolence, sexual outrage”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hubrid (comparative more hubrid, superlative most hubrid)
- (rare) Exhibiting excessive pride, presumption or arrogance; hubristic.
- 1991, Stanley Enlkin, The MacGuffin, Linden Press, page 173:
- Showing off for him, for all of them, not out of hubris — hubris? him? what did he have to be hubrid about?
- 2011, Constancio Sulapas Asumen, Flirting with Misadventures: Escapades of an Exotic Life, Friesen Press, page 143:
- Of calculatingly unprincipled / Surrender to hubrid incompetence
- 1991, Stanley Enlkin, The MacGuffin, Linden Press, page 173: