orgulous

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Adjective
  • 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
  • Nicky and Morgan’s narcissistic mom, Linda, is played by a wonderfully typecast Laurie Metcalf.
    Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • She’s been warning us since 1818 that vainglorious innovators will destroy the earth.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • A lot of tennis players are so egocentric.
    Patrick McEnroe, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • 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.
    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
Adjective
  • The test case—picturing a cow doing ballet—produces a smug bovine pirouetting.
    Elise Broach, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • My math teachers of old are very smug somewhere.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • The two boastful half-brothers clashed and split.
    Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Stand-up comedian Andrew Schulz also joined the Street Fighter cast as Dan Hibiki, who was first introduced in Street Fighter Alpha and is characterized as being obnoxiously cocky.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a lot of, kind of hockey player archetypes — the flashy, cocky European superstar, that’s definitely a type.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Ayton said Redick has emphasized not getting complacent, and James, who has been down this road now for the 19th time, has stressed that there’s no room to get comfortable.
    Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Perhaps the Wolves get bored or complacent with the successful process and abandon it in favor of isolation.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
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“Orgulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orgulous. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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