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• s  proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction)

• At whom else to strike? Obviously at Les Amricainspurse-proud Shylocks, champagne-swizzling hypocrites, gumchewers, rubbernecks, boors.
• Like Robin Hood's men, his army would strike swiftly in small groupskidnaping some purse-proud landlord here, killing a sheriff's man thereand fade elusively into mountain .
• Leon Henderson had asked the purse-proud Budget Bureau for $210 million to up his staff of 7,300 to 90,000 price cops and helpers.