Orgulous

/ˈɔːɡjʊləs/ · adjective

Meaning

Arrogant, haughty, proud..

Definitions by Sense

1. Arrogant, haughty, proud.
2. Ostentatious; showy.
3. Swollen; augmented; excessive.
4. Dangerous, threatening.

Example Sentences

At that time there was a knight, the which was the king's son of Ireland, and his name was Lanceor, the which was an orgulous knight, and counted himself one of the best of the court; and he had great despite at Balin for the achieving of the sword, that any should be accounted more hardy, or of more prowess.

In Troy there lyes the Scene: From Iles of Greece / The Princes Orgillous, their high blood chaf'd / Haue to the Port of Athens ſent their ſhippes / […] their vovv is made / To ranſacke Troy, vvithin vvhoſe ſtrong emures / The rauiſh'd Helen, Menelaus Queene, / VVith vvanton Paris ſleepes, and that's the Quarrell.

Then spoke young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom.

Her nephew describes her as 'an orgulous and despotic woman', and it is clear that he noticed and resented her numerous unkindnesses.

They knew that my lord of Arundel had grown so orgulous that he had lately dared to marry the Earl of March's sister, without license.

1967, John T. Sladek, Masterson and the Clerks, reprinted in Best SF Stories from New Worlds 4, edited by Michael Moorcock The smile became an orange balloon, orgulous and threatening.

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Word Forms

• more orgulous
• most orgulous
• orgillous
• orgueilous

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