self-aggrandizing
Example Sentences
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Mr. Robb’s attunement makes him a master geographer of the oldest and newest forms of life on a “sodden, self-aggrandizing island outpost.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
I don’t mean that in a self-aggrandizing way.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
That students aren’t allowed to ever be off-message and self-aggrandizing?
From Slate ● May 2, 2024
Each man embodies a version of Hollywood's self-aggrandizing pompousness.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023
It was a practical expression of the self-aggrandizing impulse that inspired other megastructures in the new Hellenistic kingdoms, such as the renovated Temple of Apollo at Didyma, or the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
