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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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But overall, the global findings jibe with other research that has demonstrated that young people today have been showing many positive trends, including a tendency to be more empathetic, less narcissistic, more inclusive and even more patient than past generations.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
19 Mar. 2026
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Trump’s narcissistic obsession with the place, together with the miasmic hatefulness of his words and actions, has caused artists to flee en masse.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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A lot of tennis players are so egocentric.—
Patrick McEnroe,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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But research on egocentric bias shows that leaders vastly overestimate how much audiences care about the company's journey.—
Harrison Monarth,
Forbes.com,
21 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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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
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The attention to amusing detail is evident throughout, from the vainglorious mayor’s ample display of chest fur to the very long wintry outfit Gary De’Snake wears in snowy conditions.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The social enrichment, the egotistical component?—
The Editors,
Robb Report,
14 Mar. 2026
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Please don’t take this in an egotistical way.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The two boastful half-brothers clashed and split.—
Gail Sheehy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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Over time, some officers showed a boastful disdain for parts of the population they were expected to protect.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
7 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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Over Your Dead Body is not for the faint of heart, but give or take a rape threat that crosses the line into smug sadism without quite seeming to realize it, the violence lands as more comically cartoonish than horrific.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Mar. 2026
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The ceremony has remained a smug political distraction ever since.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Hubristic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hubristic. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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