self-aggrandizing
Example Sentences
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Mr. Robb’s attunement makes him a master geographer of the oldest and newest forms of life on a “sodden, self-aggrandizing island outpost.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
That students aren’t allowed to ever be off-message and self-aggrandizing?
From Slate • May 2, 2024
It’s all part of a slick image that Ochoa has cultivated online, where it’s easy to find his self-aggrandizing corridos and photographs of him posing in front of his black Chevrolet Corvette.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2024
Beginning in the late 2010s, Brian Valmond started shining a light on stories that are often shaded by secrecy, exaggeration, self-protection and self-aggrandizing.
From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2024
It was a practical expression of the self-aggrandizing impulse that inspired other megastructures in the new Hellenistic kingdoms, such as the renovated Temple of Apollo at Didyma, or the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
