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Значения термина self-important на английском

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

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Examples for "arrogant"
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President Grant in the beginning undertook to break down this arrogant claim.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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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
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The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.
Marriage à la mode
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He was chesty, wore long sleeves and ran on his toes.
The Guardian
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See how chesty it makes him-hewon't even look this way.
Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings
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I don't feel very chesty about the way I've managed it.
T. Tembarom
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My throat was parched and I was coughing; a really bad, chesty cough.
Underground
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They felt a bit chesty at the thought of that B. S. or A.
The Plastic Age
Использование термина self-important на английском
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When her brother saw me he grew self-important with knowledge and spoke.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
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But, of course-itis very natural-theythink that rather self-important and silly.
Red Pottage
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Well, he thought, blocky and self-important architecture or no, this was it.
Timescape
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And Milani, safe and secure and self-important, did not bother with peepholes.
One night stands & lost weekends
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I walked at the self-important speed of all managers visiting an insubordinate.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
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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
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He was old, fussy, and self-important, and withal no friend to me.
The Helmet of Navarre
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What happened when Rip made his innocent reply to the self-important gentleman?
The Literary World Seventh Reader
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She'd imagined that he would be a pompous, old, self-important stuffed shirt.
Mcgillivray's mistress
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Jack's dislike for that cheap, self-important little prick Ullman came flooding back.
The Shining
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There's something innately arrogant and self-important about nearly every journalist I meet.
Wired
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You mean driven by smug, self-important, middle-class idiots with hideously spoiled children?
The woman who died a lot
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This sluggish, self-important tribute to clinical depression managed to kill the franchise.
Wired
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There's the naked ambition that often manifests itself as arrogant and self-important.
The Guardian
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I had met self-important officials in my time, but Fealty was something new.
Sovereign
Self-important через время