aggrandize
Example Sentences
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“There was never looking for credit, never looking to aggrandize himself,” Rendell told AP.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022
It feels odd to talk about, because I don’t want to aggrandize myself.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019
In assembling it, he managed to aggrandize it.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2017
Her disgruntled co-writer, Lisa DePaulo, also filed a breach of contract suit, claiming therein that she’d been instructed to aggrandize Pirro’s “role in the story at the expense of the truth.”
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2017
More devoted than the pelican, she would have given her heart's blood,—had given all her life,—not only to nurture, but to aggrandize her child.
From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
