Exhibiting self-importance.
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Examples for "big "
Examples for "big "
1 We still have big water issues following the Havelock North water crisis.
2 No idea what half those big words mean but, yes, good point.
3 The paper sheds new light on a big issue for technology companies.
4 The big question now is: Can Quora really hope to answer everything?
5 New firms offering ' big data' solutions to bond traders continue to emerge.
1 He'd been bragging all week about how great his sonar gizmo was.
2 I am not bragging of it; I am only stating a fact.
3 She's been bragging to my other cousins all week that you're coming.
4 But it is an opportunity for the supporters to get bragging rights.
5 If I were in your place I'd go around bragging about it.
1 And, at one level at least, their crowing was easy to understand.
2 He laughed; a high, chuckling, crowing laugh; the laugh of triumphant optimism.
3 It was morning now; the cock was still crowing down at Sirilund.
4 From somewhere outside, she heard a crowing sound and looked up expectantly.
5 The animals were in the southeast corner, mooing and crowing and baying.
1 Jason Barnett and Michele Austin are equally good as the boastful neighbours.
2 How many times in your life have you heard this boastful remark:
3 I grow boastful ; I am an old man and should know better.
4 She was surprised to hear something almost boastful in her own tone.
5 And while he was there he heard the Giant speak boastful words.
1 Women such as I am are not won in this braggart fashion.
2 He'd been such a shameless braggart that the crowd couldn't help cheering.
3 That man may have been a convict; but he is no braggart .
4 Something in his pose, half rustic, half braggart , seemed familiar to Gaspard.
5 He tried hard to despise the braggart , but ended with envying him.
1 To read their press, Conservatives should be cock - a - hoop at Labour's policy splurge.
2 Australia, newly-crowned Tri-Nations champions are cock - a - hoop after their bonus point win over Italy.
3 UK property website Zoopla, which is also contemplating a float, must be cock - a - hoop .
4 This week, they arrive buoyant and cock - a - hoop , ready to take on the world.
5 Naturally, the artist was cock - a - hoop about the outcome and who can blame her?
1 He was not interested in self - aggrandizing or having his name in lights.
2 Is there some basic right which self - aggrandizing politicians seek to destroy first?
3 Typical self - aggrandizing hyperbole, but acknowledged to be a reasonable comparison nonetheless.
4 Many physicists loathe the term, fretting that it makes their discipline seem self - aggrandizing .
5 Harris was affable, charming and simultaneously self-deprecating and comically self - aggrandizing .
1 She's eager to avoid the cliches of sweaty torsos and self - aggrandising story-lines.
2 I'm all for a healthy dose of scepticism where self - aggrandising mercy missions are concerned.
3 Rock biographies are often worthy and self - aggrandising but this is brilliantly funny and self-deprecating.
4 How self - aggrandising is that? If he had a whip to hand, he'd be lashing himself.
5 There's nothing so unreliable as a criminal's self - aggrandising memoirs.
1 He was a biggity acting and braggy talking old man.
2 My heart began to pound, beating against my chest, pummeling my ribs and getting all braggy about its muscle strength.
3 One day, will our children turn to us and ask, "Mommy and Daddy, why was all of your hip-hop performed by braggy robots?"
4 The second day out he was feelin' pretty braggy and uppish for a stowed-away conspirator that owed his existence to a mule and stolen bananas.
5 Granger was at Braggy 's late headquarters in bed.
6 'That was only getting the pumpkin ready,' says Bassett, braggy and cheerful.
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