swollen-headed
Example Sentences
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About 30 minutes after my sudden exit, I roll—cloggy-eyed, swollen-headed, and slightly embarrassed—into the wheelhouse to talk to Jim.
From Slate • Jul. 24, 2017
A swollen-headed raider, full of boasts and stupid jokes and mead.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
It makes us ashamed of our own pretentiousness and swollen-headed pride when we reflect what this great architectonic genius has performed.
From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.
Are you really swollen-headed enough to imagine that it was you who drove the French out of Russia in 1812?
From Here, There and Everywhere by Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord
Was not this swollen-headed upstart trying to intimidate him by threats?
From The Conflict by Phillips, David Graham
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
