单词 | hubristic |
释义 | hubristic, a.|hjuːˈbrɪstɪk| [irreg. (for hybristic) ad. Gr. ὑβριστικός insolent, wanton, f. ὕβρις outrage, contempt.] Insolent, contemptuous. Also huˈbristical.
1831Let. in Russell Gladstone (1891) i. 17 The hubristic qualities of the tufted race. 1893National Observer 30 Sept. 508/2 If it is contemptuous..to ignore the spoken word, why is it less hubristic to turn your back on the formal composition? 1904Westm. Gaz. 6 May 2/1 These Chamberlainites are very hubristic. 1923J. M. Murry Pencillings 272, I was feeling at my ease, perhaps even a little hubristical myself. 1930Punch 1 Oct. 381/2 This deleterious and delirious Dean, Who of the fount of Hippocrene Drank in a manner most hubristic. 1961Times 18 May 17/2 It was hubristic of the band to play the National Anthem in an eighteenth century version. |

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