Usage of "self-important"

Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride.

Termos relacionados

proud

Uso de self-important em inglês

When her brother saw me he grew self-important with knowledge and spoke. 
 The thirteenth tale: a novel 

But, of course-itis very natural-theythink that rather self-important and silly. 
 Red Pottage 

Well, he thought, blocky and self-important architecture or no, this was it. 
 Timescape 

And Milani, safe and secure and self-important, did not bother with peepholes. 
 One night stands & lost weekends 

I walked at the self-important speed of all managers visiting an insubordinate. 
 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August 

A stack of dossiers tied with self-important red ribbons stood by him. 
 Three stations: an arkady renko novel 

He accused her of being mean-spirited, critical, self-important, humorless, conceited, profligate, bigot- 
 Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery 

He was old, fussy, and self-important, and withal no friend to me. 
 The Helmet of Navarre 

What happened when Rip made his innocent reply to the self-important gentleman? 
 The Literary World Seventh Reader 

She'd imagined that he would be a pompous, old, self-important stuffed shirt. 
 Mcgillivray's mistress 

Jack's dislike for that cheap, self-important little prick Ullman came flooding back. 
 The Shining 

There's something innately arrogant and self-important about nearly every journalist I meet. 
 Wired 

You mean driven by smug, self-important, middle-class idiots with hideously spoiled children? 
 The woman who died a lot 

This sluggish, self-important tribute to clinical depression managed to kill the franchise. 
 Wired 

There's the naked ambition that often manifests itself as arrogant and self-important. 
 The Guardian 

I had met self-important officials in my time, but Fealty was something new. 
 Sovereign 

Self-important ao longo do tempo

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Significados de self-important em inglês