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Self-aggrandizing   /sˈɛlfəgrˈændˌaɪzɪŋ/   Listen
Self-aggrandizing

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or characteristic of self-aggrandizement.  Synonym: self-aggrandising.
2.
Exhibiting self-importance.  Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising.






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"Self-aggrandizing" Quotes from Famous Books



... God, where the prayer of an honest man's heart might be heard and answered by that all-merciful and all-wise Being, who sometimes leaves proud men to themselves, to the lawless, headlong driving of their arrogant passions, to show them, in the due turn of events, what a vicious self-aggrandizing, abhorrent and despicable monster in human shape such a noble creature, when turned from the divine purpose of his creation, may become. To such contemplations, and to the repose of a mind and conscience at peace with itself, did the once, nay, ever-renowned ...
— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter



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