Word Finder - proud

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Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.

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I am proud of Sivu’s schoolwork.

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Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.

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I was too proud to apologise.

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Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.

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Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.

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It was a proud day when we finally won the championship.

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(Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.

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Standing out or raised; swollen.

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After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh.

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Brave, valiant; gallant.

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Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.

She was proud of him.

How sad that she would be too proud to have fun.

How proud mamma will be of her brave boy!

Pearl is a very proud mother-dog now.

That clinic was his baby and he was proud of it.

He was so proud of it.

This made him very proud of his skill.

Even at a distance it was obvious that the man was much taller and he rode with a proud kind of grace that her father never possessed.

You must be really proud to have accomplished all this.

They had learned a lot since they came, and they were obviously proud of it.

Be proud of that, he said.

We shall all be proud and happy to welcome our poet friend.

I had hoped to meet her, but I am proud to meet her mate.

He stood with his back straight, as if proud of every inch.

The princess never thought of that proud word "justice."

Julie stood nearby, as proud as any mother could be.

Would you be proud to call him a friend?

I am so proud of him.

Andrew's gray eyes blazed as he stood up straight and proud before the haughty captain.

She hadn't noticed Jackson yet, so stretched her front paws out and let out a proud howl.

In the regiment they called him "our prince," were proud of him and loved him.

Several little girls have learned to spell on their fingers and are very proud of the accomplishment.

But the once proud and shrewd rulers of France, feeling that their part is played out, are even more bewildered than he, and do not say the words they should have said to destroy him and retain their power.

She gazed up at him, completely disarmed by his smile, and yet somehow proud that she had been the one to put it there.

Dr. Hale claims kinship with Helen, and seems very proud of his little cousin.

Natasha, who was treated as though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the same time felt shy.

You raised him and you can be proud as punch of everything he's accomplished, but you've got to trust him, too.

But Gladys was delighted and after a night, ostensibly in adjoining rooms, the pair were off, with giggles and tears and a proud pronouncement that Arlen had agreed to present all seven volumes of Belfair and her galactic cohorts to the waiting world of letters—in paperback form.

She wanted to tell her brother how proud of him she was.

Cyrus was so tall and strong and handsome that his grandfather was very proud of him.

And strange to say, the Governor of Moscow, the proud Count Rostopchin, took up a Cossack whip and went to the bridge where he began with shouts to drive on the carts that blocked the way.

Louis XIV was a very proud and self-confident man; he had such and such mistresses and such and such ministers and he ruled France badly.

As proud as she was of Jonathan, it was Alex who stayed on her mind for a long time after the phone call.

He was proud of the fifteen or more miles his freighters could travel in a day.

She checked her weapons with scrutiny that would've made her father proud and dressed in dark clothing loose enough for her to fight.

She always said thank you, but it was nothing to be proud of.

I am now the proud owner of about fifteen new books, which we ordered from Louisville.

I do not suppose that I have attained to obscurity, but I should be proud if no more fatal fault were found with my pages on this score than was found with the Walden ice.

However, once we got going, I'm proud to state my future wife responded robustly, both physically and vocally.

His gaze drifted again to the woman whose pale features made him feel both proud and worried.

I'm proud of you.

I'm really proud of you and the girls, Darian.

He did not concern himself with the interests of his own class, and consequently some thought him proud and others thought him stupid.

So this is what I was proud of!

I was growing to love this town, with its simple history, proud of its old homes and field stone fences, telling the world it was a place worth staying.

I'm very proud of him.

You must be proud.

They must have been proud of you.

Rob and Gerald were standing beside their saddled mounts, looking proud.

You should be proud of me.