aggrandize
Example Sentences
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“There was never looking for credit, never looking to aggrandize himself,” Rendell told AP.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022
It feels odd to talk about, because I don’t want to aggrandize myself.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019
Her disgruntled co-writer, Lisa DePaulo, also filed a breach of contract suit, claiming therein that she’d been instructed to aggrandize Pirro’s “role in the story at the expense of the truth.”
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2017
“Lights, camera, a platform to aggrandize and the world’s breathless anticipation? These are his four main food groups.”
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2016
Did he merely wish to aggrandize himself, to create and perpetuate his own renown, by being the greatest and the best monarch earth has ever known?
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
