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
Mr. King admitted that the story was a fabrication aimed to aggrandize the sorrowful childhood of Larry Zeiger.
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2021
It feels odd to talk about, because I don’t want to aggrandize myself.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019
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
It was his sole object to aggrandize himself by promoting the splendor, the power, and the glory of the monarchy.
From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
