self-important
Speech parts
1. self-important - Adjective
2. self-important - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Having or manifesting an exaggerated idea of one's own importance or merit.
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Examples
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
God has far better things to do than creating self-important little species such as ours. He's got wars, deaths, disasters and diseases to ignore for starters. And a fair bit of not-exist-ing-at-all to be getting on with.
I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens... I look up into the stars and I imagine: 'How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?'
When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.
I never wanted to come off as self-important.
Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.