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orgulous

 

orgulous ("OR-gyoo-luhs") adj.

origin: from the French "orgueil", meaning "pride"

1. Proud, haughty.

"Prologue:

In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece
The princes orgulous, their high blood chafed,
Have to the port of Athens sent their ships...
Put forth toward Phrygia; and their vow is made
To ransack Troy, within whose strong immures
The ravish'd Helen, Menelaus' queen,
With wanton Paris sleeps; and that's the quarrel."

--William Shakespeare, "Troilus and Cressida"


"Curiously, Shapley portrays McNamara as a naive bumpkin out of
place at the glamorous Kennedy court. Nothing could be further
from the truth. He astutely recognized that intimate relations
with the orgulous Kennedys could only heighten his influence."

--Deborah Shapley, "The Hollow Man: The Life and Times of Robert
McNamara", in "The New Republic"