self-aggrandizing
Example Sentences
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It’s the breath marks of Emily Dickinson, the stream of consciousness of Virginia Woolf, the head-clogging maximalism of David Foster Wallace, the self-aggrandizing asides of Joel Stein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
I don’t mean that in a self-aggrandizing way.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
That students aren’t allowed to ever be off-message and self-aggrandizing?
From Slate ● May 2, 2024
Beginning in the late 2010s, Brian Valmond started shining a light on stories that are often shaded by secrecy, exaggeration, self-protection and self-aggrandizing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
It was a practical expression of the self-aggrandizing impulse that inspired other megastructures in the new Hellenistic kingdoms, such as the renovated Temple of Apollo at Didyma, or the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
