aggrandizement

Example Sentences

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The sentencing judge found that Peters was motivated by vanity and personal aggrandizement rather than genuine concern for election integrity, describing her as a charlatan who used her former position to peddle disproven claims.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2025

Sen. Patty Murray is the kind of politician who can be trusted to use her seniority for productive work, not personal aggrandizement or self-promotion.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2022

In other words, European elites actively sought not just to trade with, but to conquer and control, overseas territories both for profit and for their own political “glory” and aggrandizement.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

What about a disturbing aggrandizement of “masculine” behavior?

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

I had never dreamed that anyone would accept me so simply, so completely, without question or the least hint of personal aggrandizement.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright