Purse Proud

Word PURSE PROUD
Character 11
Hyphenation purse -proud
Pronunciations N/A

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The word "purse-proud" in example sentences

During the war, Ai-ling maintained a fine home in what journalist Sheen called “purse-proud and contented Hong Kong”—an elegant refuge that May-ling, pleading ill health and claiming that her doctor “had told her she would acquire cancer if she did not rest,” visited fairly often. ❋ Hannah Pakula (2009)

They repeated family jokes and preserved family feuds ... were given to introspection; were quite unpretentious and purse-proud; were thrifty sometimes to the point of avarice, and yet handsomely generous in behalf of any good cause or any good friend .... ❋ Unknown (2005)

Nobody seemed to have enough instinct for independence and human dignity to be irritated at the idea that one purse-proud old man could prevent us all from having an ordinary human commodity if he chose. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Baron came in, very much at ease, greeted his friend Bargeton, and favored Lucien with the little nod then in vogue, which the poet in his mind called purse-proud impertinence. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And as the young men of his own rank would not endure the purse-proud insolence of the Creole, he fell into that taste for low society, which is worse than “pressing to death, whipping, or hanging.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is sufficiently weak-minded to be proud; but this type is generally merely purse-proud; and, as Thackeray said, "It admires mean things meanly"; for example, it admires itself. ❋ Unknown (2007)

That purse-proud ex-linendraper, Mr. Yardley, with the yellow liveries, and the wife in red velvet? ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Bumpshers and the house of Mango at the Pineries vie together in their desire to dominate over the neighborhood; and each votes the other a vulgar and purse-proud family. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The state of Britain was represented nearly always by a red-faced, purse-proud farmer with an enormous belly, that fine dream of freedom, the United States, by a cunning, lean-faced rascal in striped trousers and a blue coat. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

In justification, or apology, for those who entertained such prejudices, I must remark, that the Scotch of that period were guilty of similar injustice to the English, whom they branded universally as a race of purse-proud arrogant epicures. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The costive liberality of a purse-proud man insults the distresses it sometimes relieves; he takes care to make you feel your own misfortunes, and the difference between your situation and his; both which he insinuates to be justly merited: yours, by your folly; his, by his wisdom. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A purse-proud person would here feel the ground move from beneath his feet. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They were not only vulgar and rich, but purse-proud and conceited as well. ❋ Unknown (2004)

‘Heartless, false, purse-proud creature,’ Georgiana said to herself as she wrote the following letter in humiliating agony. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He looked as though he were purse-proud and a bully. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Bad in every way, wretched, selfish, sensual, unfeeling, purse-proud, ignorant as Sir Louis Scatcherd was still, there was left to him the power of feeling something like sincere love. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The fellow is a bad neighbour, and I desire, to have nothing to do with him: but as he is purse-proud, he shall pay for his insolence: let him give five pounds to the poor of the parish, and I will withdraw my action; and in the mean time you may tell ❋ Unknown (2004)

I do not think any of these liked the Pollexfens, who were well off and seemed to them purse-proud, whereas they themselves had come down in the world. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)

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