self-aggrandizement
Example Sentences
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But he adds that “wielding power and mining the force of the institution for self-aggrandizement weren’t unique to the Reagan White House.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2024
“When we aspire to be a leading power, this is not for self-aggrandizement, but to take on greater responsibility and make more contributions,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2023
No American director’s more committed to exposing the smugness and self-aggrandizement of bourgeois urbanites.
From New York Times • May 25, 2023
"To understand Nixon is to appreciate that his self-aggrandizement was key... to the way he told his life story to himself, an attempt to cast himself as the noble victim not only publicly but privately."
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2023
But these extravagant numbers were surely a form of self-aggrandizement, and reckless to the point of irresponsibility.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
