Clues for the word "PROUD"
We've had 89 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 163 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on September 10, 2025.
Definition of proud
- superl. - Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense
- superl. - Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.
- superl. - Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.
- superl. - Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.
- superl. - Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.
Referring Clues
- Feeling puffed up
- Like a new parent
- Walking tall
- Haughty
- Majestic
- Self-satisfied
- Like a peacock?
- "___ Mary" (Creedence Clearwater Revivial hit)
- Pleased with one's feats
- ___ as a peacock
- Puffed up
- Full of hubris
- Hardly humble
- Gratified
- Like a peacock
- Peacock-like
- Vain
- Boastful
- Far from humble
- Pleased with oneself
- ___ as a peacock
- Like new grandparents
- High-and-mighty
- Exultant
- Strutting
- Unbowed
- Boastful, perhaps
- Full of self-esteem
- Honored
- Conceited
- ______ as a peacock
- Full of oneself
- Self-important
- Supercilious
- Smug as can be
- Word in a Marines slogan
- Like the Marines
- Full of spirit
- Self-respecting
- Parents when their punk kid gets rich
- August men in provincial party rising
- Feeling self-respect - projecting from a surface
- Stuck-up, being above the neighbouring level
- Haughty - sticking out
- Pleasantly aware of standing high
- Boastful of standing high?
- Pleased by one's own achievements
- Self-satisfied - arrogant
- Vainglorious
- Kvelling, say
- Sticking out
- Sticking out for what 8 was said to be
- Feeling gratified or arrogant
- Some encouragement, you say, is in vain
- Projecting above a surface
- Reminder about upper class being haughty
- Outstanding reminder about university
- Like a new dad
- Like parents at a graduation
- Tarquin the ___ (final king of Rome)
- Honoured
- It's socially acceptable to poke about, but cocky
- Stuck up - literally and metaphorically
- Dig around radioactive metal that's sticking out
- Arrogant public relations officer attached to upper-class Democrat
- Arrogant dropout's hanging round university
- Outstanding and too conscious of it?
- "Ain't Too ___ to Beg" (Temptations hit)
- Haughty letters to a public relations officer
- Boastful, being above the general level
- Peacockish
- Like a peacock, in a saying
- Like parents of straight-A students
- ___ as a peacock (vain)
- Feeling pleasure and satisfaction
- "___ Mary"
- Honoured to be public relations officer for an urban district
- Arrogant
- Of lofty dignity
- Haughty, arrogant
- Like many parents at graduations
- "The ___ Family"
- Far from ashamed
- "I'm so ___ of you!"
- Opposite of ashamed
- Boastful of standing high?
- Out and ___
- ___ as punch
- Like a peacock?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - September 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 07, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 11, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 03, 2025
- Family Time - March 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 06, 2025
- Mirror Mini - January 03, 2025
- New York Times - August 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 22, 2024
- LA Times - April 14, 2024
- LA Times - March 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 08, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 15, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 22, 2024
- USA Today - January 20, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 15, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - November 29, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 17, 2023
- USA Today - September 10, 2023
- And in 133 more crossword puzzles...