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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(archaic) Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty..
See, in the distance advancing, Richmond's misproud array, Fighting for Henry the traitor.
It is grete scorne to se a mysproude knave / With a clerke that connynge is to prate: / Lete theym go lowse theym, in the devylles date.
[...] dismount two hundred of our best dragooners, and, under Fight-the-good-fight Egerton, let them file down that gully to our left, and fire constantly on the advance of these misproud malignants.
Yet was the song acclaimed of these aloud Whose praise had made mute bumbleness misproud, [...]
"[...] He hath, I know not how, wrung forth a noble haunch of venison and store of Bourdeaux wine from some misproud malignant here at Naseby!"
Use misproud when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Misproud means (archaic) Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
See, in the distance advancing, Richmond's misproud array, Fighting for Henry the traitor.
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