misproud

adjective

1. Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty.

   archaic

   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.

Where it comes from

From Middle English misproud, equivalent to mis- + proud.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry misproud (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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