self-aggrandizing
Example Sentences
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It’s the breath marks of Emily Dickinson, the stream of consciousness of Virginia Woolf, the head-clogging maximalism of David Foster Wallace, the self-aggrandizing asides of Joel Stein.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
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
If not, he might have been remembered as a self-aggrandizing windbag with an old-fashioned speaking style and a love of the sound of his own voice.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
