aggrandizement

Example Sentences

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The sentencing judge found that Peters was motivated by vanity and personal aggrandizement rather than genuine concern for election integrity, describing her as a charlatan who used her former position to peddle disproven claims.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2025

Sen. Patty Murray is the kind of politician who can be trusted to use her seniority for productive work, not personal aggrandizement or self-promotion.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2022

Its Security Council was authorized to deploy military force when necessary, but its very reason to be was to prevent war from being used as a tool of political aggrandizement.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

What about a disturbing aggrandizement of “masculine” behavior?

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

Others he cultivated for their genuine capabilities on the screen, and for the sense of aggrandizement that he derived from associating with them.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown