self-aggrandizing
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8.6
- adjective
- /sɛlf əˈɡrændɪˌzaɪzɪŋ/
- Formal
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autopromocional
- I didn't bargain for second-rate mysticism and self-aggrandizing shamanism.
- indulgent and self-aggrandizing
- arrogant and self-aggrandizing
- aggressive and self-aggrandizing
I'm not a influencer or a thought leader or whatever else silly self aggrandizing label people put on their LinkedIn.
- I'm not a influencer or a thought leader or whatever else silly self aggrandizing label people put on their LinkedIn.
- They have stupid, self aggrandizing, lazy, hard partisans who don't care about America.
- But if you're really committed to, to a 'cause you're not going to do it in a way that's destructive and self aggrandizing, right?
- When I started this business, I was kind of in and out of it in my head because it seemed self aggrandizing to me.
Examples
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Lucian Truscott IV used to publish his self-aggrandizing critiques in The Village Voice.
Blog text (3) -
Every piece by Frothman is a myopic, masturbatory, self-aggrandizing exercise in wingnuttery.
Blog text (10) -
When I started this business, I was kind of in and out of it in my head because it seemed self aggrandizing to me.
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It's just that I too often see it used as a self-aggrandizing tool...
Blog text (9) -
I have little faith in the many self-aggrandizing "reports" and "studies" produced by my fellow educators.
Blog text (19) -
Popular appeals by the president were necessarily self-aggrandizing, coming at the expense of the popular credentials of other government officials.
Academic text (1997) -
Wally's Comment: This is a case of self-aggrandizing leadership putting pressure on people in her organization to cheat.
Blog text (18) -
Faith decries the self-aggrandizing instinct of scholars who take a proprietary attitude toward their fields of expertise.
Academic text (1992) -
McGovern interpreted local reactions to him with the self-aggrandizing delusion of earned accomplishment.
Academic text (1996) -
His self-aggrandizing remarks made it hard for others to take him seriously.
Synonyms
227
8.9
Someone who thinks they are much better than others
74
7.3
Trying to seem more important or clever than you really are
57
5.8
Acting more important and formal than necessary
24
6.6
Seeing yourself as much more important than other people
13
5.8
Acting as if you are better than other people
7
3.7
Being too proud of achievements or skills in a way that annoys others
4
6.8
Thinking you are much better or more important than others
2
9.8
Too much pride and confidence that makes people dislike you
1
7.2
Thinking you are more important than other people
1
7.8
Talking proudly about things you have done
1
9.9
Acting important but having no real skill or success
Acting more confident and important than you really are
Thinking you are better than other people
Feeling very proud and excited and showing it to others
Antonyms
How Self-Promoting
Surface Forms
Morphology
self-aggrandizing = self-aggrandize (transparent) = self + aggrandize + ing
Formed by adding the participial/adjectival suffix '-ing' to the verb 'self-aggrandize'; the meaning is directly derived from 'self' + 'aggrandize'.
Etymology
Self-aggrandizing combines self- ('yourself') with the verb aggrandize, which comes from the root grand meaning 'big' or 'great'. Because aggrandize means 'to make great', a self-aggrandizing person tries to make themselves seem bigger or more important than they really are.