self-importance
Noun
Meaning
An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit.
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An even more public example of this arrogance and self-importance was Jordan's infamous Hall of Fame acceptance speech, which columnist, Rick Reilly, called "by turns, rude, vindictive and flammable.
As we have seen with Killer Mike’s public fellating of the National Rifle Association, artistic excellence and the crowdsourced hypnosis of self-importance are not mutually exclusive.
He noted that, the late Minister did not create an atmosphere of self-importance around him and was always smiling, not insulting or being saucy even when he was heckled on the floor of Parliament.
Leave it to Steve Martin to create virus-era comedy that is still light and goofy, while also continuing his career-long commitment to puncturing the self-importance of Hollywood.
To again quote the great Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Joseph Stiglitz; Femi fits into the category of third rate students from first rate universities with an inflated sense of self-importance.
“It may well be he was actually drunk on his self-importance having had successes in Kosovo and Sierra Leone,” Colonel Tim Collins, a senior figure in the army in 2003, commented when the Chilcot Inquiry published its findings.