Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride.
1When her brother saw me he grew self-important with knowledge and spoke.
2But, of course-itis very natural-theythink that rather self-important and silly.
3Well, he thought, blocky and self-important architecture or no, this was it.
4And Milani, safe and secure and self-important, did not bother with peepholes.
5I walked at the self-important speed of all managers visiting an insubordinate.
6A stack of dossiers tied with self-important red ribbons stood by him.
7He accused her of being mean-spirited, critical, self-important, humorless, conceited, profligate, bigot-
8He was old, fussy, and self-important, and withal no friend to me.
9What happened when Rip made his innocent reply to the self-important gentleman?
10She'd imagined that he would be a pompous, old, self-important stuffed shirt.
11Jack's dislike for that cheap, self-important little prick Ullman came flooding back.
12There's something innately arrogant and self-important about nearly every journalist I meet.
13You mean driven by smug, self-important, middle-class idiots with hideously spoiled children?
14This sluggish, self-important tribute to clinical depression managed to kill the franchise.
15There's the naked ambition that often manifests itself as arrogant and self-important.
16I had met self-important officials in my time, but Fealty was something new.
Self-important a través del tiempo