Exhibiting self-importance.
Sinônimos
Examples for "aggrandizement"
Examples for "aggrandizement"
1The sole business of Lovat was personal aggrandizement; revenge was his amusement.
2She says it simply, without self-aggrandizement, but with a kind of wonder.
3The conquests of Napoleon were followed by the aggrandizement of his house.
4Among the Assyrians the national purpose was predominantly one of military aggrandizement.
5The lust of Europe for territorial aggrandizement becomes every day more pronounced.
1State resources are misappropriated for the personal aggrandisement of the political elites.
2On the contrary, the principal aim of the French cabinet was aggrandisement.
3See how they have fought for the aggrandisement of their own order.
4Every baron fought for his own land and for his own aggrandisement.
5As ambitious, rapacious, eager for nothing but military glory and territorial aggrandisement.
1He was not interested in self-aggrandizing or having his name in lights.
2Is there some basic right which self-aggrandizing politicians seek to destroy first?
3Typical self-aggrandizing hyperbole, but acknowledged to be a reasonable comparison nonetheless.
4Many physicists loathe the term, fretting that it makes their discipline seem self-aggrandizing.
5Harris was affable, charming and simultaneously self-deprecating and comically self-aggrandizing.
6In fact, he described you as a self-aggrandizing liar with a history of violence.
7His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history.
8Why might I want to use such self-aggrandizing language?
9I could see, even appreciate, the value of things apart from all our tacky self-aggrandizing.
10Does one talk about the noble things one has done, or is that too self-aggrandizing?
11But his decision to declare a "Republic" was pre-mature, self-aggrandizing and in vacuo.
12They even had a self-aggrandizing name for themselves.
13It's Michael Moore without the self-aggrandizing hyperbole.
14One self-aggrandizing chapter implies that the author's own Lifestreams software is a splendid example of beauty in action.
15The Swede was a dramatic man, whose self-aggrandizing antics on the slopes with his camera sometimes irritated other climbers.
16But then, the King was no doubt inspired by Wagner's operas, which were nothing if not overdramatic and ponderously self-aggrandizing.