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
He played self-aggrandizing lawyer Denny Crane on the ABC series.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024
That students aren’t allowed to ever be off-message and self-aggrandizing?
From Slate • May 2, 2024
I have long sided unreservedly with Truman on the issue — not so much on principle, I must admit, as because of MacArthur’s overweening, self-aggrandizing arrogance.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2023
If not, he might have been remembered as a self-aggrandizing windbag with an old-fashioned speaking style and a love of the sound of his own voice.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
