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hubris [hew-briss] Noun Formal pride or arrogance [Greek] hubristic adj
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Don't be surprised when McConnell expands his hubristic miscalculations to a national stage. Panic mounts when the hubristic leader, Juno, confesses she has led the group astray; this isn't actually the cave they set out to explore (and where park rangers might mount a search), but another cave altogether, uncharted and unknown. Yet the hubristic pleasure of taking on and taming nature through unsuitable or unsustainable development is still deprecssingly in evidence. |
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