unproud

English

Etymology

un- + proud

Adjective

unproud (comparative more unproud, superlative most unproud)

  1. Not proud.
    • 1879 July 1, Fraser's Magazine, volume 20, page 104:
      When he jeers at the British public who 'love me not,' it is with an air more jaunty than bitter, as of a. man not half-displeased to be above his audience, nor quite unproud of that distinction—sentiments which no audience is likely to approve of.
    • 1893, Edith Matilda Thomas, Fair Shadow Land, page 32:
      Listen, thou child I used to be! / Unproud I move, and yet unbowed, / Where thou wast fed with vanity, / Thy chiefest pride — thou wast not proud!
    • 2003, Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude, page 823:
      Arthur would spot Dose coming a mile off on the street and pull his wallet out, stuff a five-spot into his palm for their handclasp when they collided, pity money Dose had become too unproud to refuse.

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