aggrandize
Example Sentences
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No one in 1787 could have foreseen Trump, but history had taught the founders about the type: men of “perverted ambition” who “hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country.”
From Washington Post
If everything is brittle, politicians have endless crises to justify aggrandizing their powers.
From Washington Post
Furthermore, Oklahoma’s Supreme Court refused to allow the lower court to aggrandize itself by apportioning, like a legislature, the $465 million to particular uses.
From Washington Post
But there is no noblesse oblige or courtly love, no dragons, witchy women or aggrandizing British accents.
From New York Times
This points to Trump's inability to comprehend or value other people; he can only use them while they serve his endless need to aggrandize himself, then discard them when they do not.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
