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Recent Examples of hubristic
The famously hubristic Cameron thought there could be no better way to show that losing Leo wouldn’t sink his movie than by casting his Basketball Diaries co-star and rival.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
The Iraq War’s neoconservative architects suffered from a hubristic faith in American power and their own righteousness.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
But the arguments that AI will take over tasks and that will allow people to be more fully human is terribly mistaken and overtly hubristic.
—Caleb Harris, Austin American Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026
In hindsight, that moment of hubristic braggadocio may have provoked the wrath of the retail gods.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
In our own history, the failures of the Vietnam and Iraq wars owed less to insufficient brawn than to arrogance, cultural blindness, and the hubristic dismissal of diplomacy as weakness.
—Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
The seminal story of hubristic man’s creation of intelligence, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, arose from the voice of a 19-year-old woman.
—Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
The hubristic nature of the expedition that follows, and the landscapes captured, call to mind a very different Herzog title.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
Joe Reid, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
The Iraq War’s neoconservative architects suffered from a hubristic faith in American power and their own righteousness.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
But the arguments that AI will take over tasks and that will allow people to be more fully human is terribly mistaken and overtly hubristic.
—Caleb Harris, Austin American Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026
In hindsight, that moment of hubristic braggadocio may have provoked the wrath of the retail gods.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
In our own history, the failures of the Vietnam and Iraq wars owed less to insufficient brawn than to arrogance, cultural blindness, and the hubristic dismissal of diplomacy as weakness.
—Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
The seminal story of hubristic man’s creation of intelligence, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, arose from the voice of a 19-year-old woman.
—Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
The hubristic nature of the expedition that follows, and the landscapes captured, call to mind a very different Herzog title.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hubristic
Adjective
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Fascism became fashionable for a time, even if it was rooted in self-grandiosity, narcissistic grievance, and sadistic vengeance.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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Nicky and Morgan’s narcissistic mom, Linda, is played by a wonderfully typecast Laurie Metcalf.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The Miniature Wife Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen star in this dramedy about an egocentric scientist on the verge of a breakthrough who accidentally shrinks his wife, a Pulitzer-winning author who hasn’t written a lick in more than a decade.—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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A lot of tennis players are so egocentric.—
Patrick McEnroe,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Avoid Burying Praise in Negatives To avoid making children too conceited, parents might bury praise in the midst of negatives.—
Wayne Parker,
Parents,
8 Mar. 2026
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The Pitt definitely feels like the type of workplace where conceited doctors-in-training are pretty much guaranteed to quickly get knocked down a peg.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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She’s been warning us since 1818 that vainglorious innovators will destroy the earth.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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The vainglorious demands of one man who can’t read a map? Concerned leaders in both parties should explain to the citizens of the United States how much peril Trump is courting.—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
14 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Demolishes the East Wing of the White House on an egotistical whim?—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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The social enrichment, the egotistical component?—
The Editors,
Robb Report,
14 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Despite Netanyahu’s boastful statement, a series of nationwide polls last week found that most Israelis do not believe the US and Israel won the war against Iran.—
Dalia Abdelwahab,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2026
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The two boastful half-brothers clashed and split.—
Gail Sheehy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Three hundred high school players gather at a remote facility to compete in ruthless trials where only one will emerge as the world’s greatest and most egoistic striker.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The test case—picturing a cow doing ballet—produces a smug bovine pirouetting.—
Elise Broach,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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My math teachers of old are very smug somewhere.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Hubristic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hubristic. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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