self-importance
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If you’ve made it this far, you may be thinking that the reviewer is one of those insufferable people who criticizes others to burnish his own self-importance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
But search results showed criteria for narcissistic personality disorder, a condition marked by unreasonably high self-importance, pathological need for admiration, and a lack of empathy.
From Slate • Jul. 23, 2025
As a kind of counterpart to the Captain’s mental division, Robert Downey Jr. plays four characters who might be seen as one, in that they’re all aspects of American self-importance.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2024
The project enabled the photographer to "get a bit of his swagger back, a bit of his artistic self-importance, which is nice to see," Dr Kyneswood said.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2024
“We’ll take care of her, Laila jan,” one of the women said with an air of self-importance.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
Vocabulary lists containing self-importance
Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 4
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