Exhibiting self-importance.
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 .
6 In fact, he described you as a self - aggrandizing liar with a history of violence.
7 His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self - aggrandizing egomaniacs of history.
8 Why might I want to use such self - aggrandizing language?
9 I could see, even appreciate, the value of things apart from all our tacky self - aggrandizing .
10 Does one talk about the noble things one has done, or is that too self - aggrandizing ?
11 But his decision to declare a "Republic" was pre-mature, self - aggrandizing and in vacuo.
12 They even had a self - aggrandizing name for themselves.
13 It's Michael Moore without the self - aggrandizing hyperbole.
14 One self - aggrandizing chapter implies that the author's own Lifestreams software is a splendid example of beauty in action.
15 The Swede was a dramatic man, whose self - aggrandizing antics on the slopes with his camera sometimes irritated other climbers.
16 But then, the King was no doubt inspired by Wagner's operas, which were nothing if not overdramatic and ponderously self - aggrandizing .
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