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Significados de self-aggrandising em inglês

Exhibiting self-importance.

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      Aggrandizement.

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            Examples for "aggrandizement"
            Examples for "aggrandizement"
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            The sole business of Lovat was personal aggrandizement; revenge was his amusement.
            Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II.
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            She says it simply, without self-aggrandizement, but with a kind of wonder.
            Wastelands
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            The conquests of Napoleon were followed by the aggrandizement of his house.
            The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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            Among the Assyrians the national purpose was predominantly one of military aggrandizement.
            The Moral Economy
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            The lust of Europe for territorial aggrandizement becomes every day more pronounced.
            New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, ...
            1
            State resources are misappropriated for the personal aggrandisement of the political elites.
            The South African
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            On the contrary, the principal aim of the French cabinet was aggrandisement.
            The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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            See how they have fought for the aggrandisement of their own order.
            Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Disco...
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            Every baron fought for his own land and for his own aggrandisement.
            With the British Army in The Holy Land
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            As ambitious, rapacious, eager for nothing but military glory and territorial aggrandisement.
            Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nas...
            Uso de self-aggrandising em inglês
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            She's eager to avoid the cliches of sweaty torsos and self-aggrandising story-lines.
            The Irish Times
            2
            I'm all for a healthy dose of scepticism where self-aggrandising mercy missions are concerned.
            The Guardian
            3
            Rock biographies are often worthy and self-aggrandising but this is brilliantly funny and self-deprecating.
            The Guardian
            4
            How self-aggrandising is that? If he had a whip to hand, he'd be lashing himself.
            The Guardian
            5
            There's nothing so unreliable as a criminal's self-aggrandising memoirs.
            The Guardian
            6
            There is a point behind all this self-aggrandising.
            The Guardian
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            Instead, he has become the most self-aggrandising and destructive agitator the modern Tory party has produced.
            The Guardian
            8
            These would actually have made a much more positive difference to developing countries than the self-aggrandising posturing of G20.
            The Guardian
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            It's true that much of what he had to say about his own work is absurdly convoluted and self-aggrandising.
            The Guardian
            10
            The 43rd so-titled awards show was among many events postponed due to that mischievous, self-aggrandising icecapade back in March.
            The Irish Times
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            Expressions of welcome quickly meandered into self-aggrandising bravado, mixed with clumsy innuendo at the backward errors of the Muslims.
            Siege of heaven
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            And I also liked needling people and confronting them in ways that I thought would be both funny and self-aggrandising.
            The Guardian
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            Dyke instead busied himself with a headline-grabbing mission to win the World Cup by 2022 and his self-aggrandising chairman's commission.
            The Guardian
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            It's an incredibly democratic process, so I think it would come across as self-aggrandising if I said that my chances were super high.
            Radio NZ
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            The first lady's spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham has dubbed the book "wildly self-aggrandising" revenge from a woman who joined the ranks of the president's enemies.
            News.com.au