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Significados de self-important em inglês

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

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        President Grant in the beginning undertook to break down this arrogant claim.
        Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
        2
        He was of a feeble character, arrogant in prosperity, faint-hearted in adversity.
        The History of Rome, Book V / The Establishment of the Military ...
        3
        As the Mormons increased in power, they became more self-sufficient and arrogant.
        The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
        4
        As time went on Germany and Austria became more and more arrogant.
        History of the World War, Vol. 3
        5
        The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.
        Marriage à la mode
        1
        He was chesty, wore long sleeves and ran on his toes.
        The Guardian
        2
        See how chesty it makes him-hewon't even look this way.
        Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings
        3
        I don't feel very chesty about the way I've managed it.
        T. Tembarom
        4
        My throat was parched and I was coughing; a really bad, chesty cough.
        Underground
        5
        They felt a bit chesty at the thought of that B. S. or A.
        The Plastic Age
        Uso de self-important em inglês
        1
        When her brother saw me he grew self-important with knowledge and spoke.
        The thirteenth tale: a novel
        2
        But, of course-itis very natural-theythink that rather self-important and silly.
        Red Pottage
        3
        Well, he thought, blocky and self-important architecture or no, this was it.
        Timescape
        4
        And Milani, safe and secure and self-important, did not bother with peepholes.
        One night stands & lost weekends
        5
        I walked at the self-important speed of all managers visiting an insubordinate.
        The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
        6
        A stack of dossiers tied with self-important red ribbons stood by him.
        Three stations: an arkady renko novel
        7
        He accused her of being mean-spirited, critical, self-important, humorless, conceited, profligate, bigot-
        Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery
        8
        He was old, fussy, and self-important, and withal no friend to me.
        The Helmet of Navarre
        9
        What happened when Rip made his innocent reply to the self-important gentleman?
        The Literary World Seventh Reader
        10
        She'd imagined that he would be a pompous, old, self-important stuffed shirt.
        Mcgillivray's mistress
        11
        Jack's dislike for that cheap, self-important little prick Ullman came flooding back.
        The Shining
        12
        There's something innately arrogant and self-important about nearly every journalist I meet.
        Wired
        13
        You mean driven by smug, self-important, middle-class idiots with hideously spoiled children?
        The woman who died a lot
        14
        This sluggish, self-important tribute to clinical depression managed to kill the franchise.
        Wired
        15
        There's the naked ambition that often manifests itself as arrogant and self-important.
        The Guardian
        16
        I had met self-important officials in my time, but Fealty was something new.
        Sovereign
        Self-important ao longo do tempo