self-aggrandizer
Example Sentences
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Dominant smiling makes you a self-aggrandizer; she believes that people who are truly comfortable with their status don’t smile to unnerve.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
But the senator I spoke with dismissively waved him away as a chronic self-aggrandizer and hypocrite, and flicked away Graham’s foreign policy talk as aspirational clichés.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2020
But even in defeat, the notorious self-aggrandizer may well have gotten what he wanted—not a hail of bullets, but a wash of attention, a world caught up in his myth-making.
From Newsweek ● Jun. 5, 2012
He’s voluble, talkative, a bit of a self-aggrandizer.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2010
Mansfield presents the midcareer Michael as a liar, a self-aggrandizer, a name-dropper, and a showboat who always put entertainment before news.
From Slate ● Dec. 25, 2009
