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
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
And don't you call me your dear Nash! you swollen-headed butler!
From A Woman Perfected by Marsh, Richard
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.
