swollen-headed
Example Sentences
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About 30 minutes after my sudden exit, I roll—cloggy-eyed, swollen-headed, and slightly embarrassed—into the wheelhouse to talk to Jim.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2017
A swollen-headed raider, full of boasts and stupid jokes and mead.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
It makes us ashamed of our own pretentiousness and swollen-headed pride when we reflect what this great architectonic genius has performed.
From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.
“You’ll make me swollen-headed in a moment, you two.”
From The Rustle of Silk by Hamilton, Cosmo
Was not this swollen-headed upstart trying to intimidate him by threats?
From The Conflict by Phillips, David Graham
