self-aggrandizing
Speech parts
1. self-aggrandizing - Adjective
2. self-aggrandizing - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
exhibiting self-importance
of or relating to or characteristic of self-aggrandizement
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Throughout most of our history, nothing – not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons – has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.
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But his crisis of conscience is short-circuited when he sees his old nemesis, Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) and explodes in a self-aggrandizing tirade that buries Jimmy under an avalanche of Saul.
A truly delightful meta-piece about all that is wrong with the tiny, tedious, childish, self-important, self-aggrandizing, smug, pious, wilting-daisy, overcome-with-the-vapours Brooklyn Book World.
It’s the perfect Prince moment: perplexing, bombastic, self-aggrandizing in the uproarious extreme, maddening for some, exhilarating for all nonetheless.
In this small, intelligent and graceful volume, Dr. Bereket Habte Selassie, bequeaths his life-learned lessons to the modern and emerging democratic prince, but not in a fashion that smacks self-aggrandizing.