swollen-headed
Example Sentences
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About 30 minutes after my sudden exit, I roll—cloggy-eyed, swollen-headed, and slightly embarrassed—into the wheelhouse to talk to Jim.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2017
A swollen-headed raider, full of boasts and stupid jokes and mead.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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Are you really swollen-headed enough to imagine that it was you who drove the French out of Russia in 1812?
From Here, There and Everywhere by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
Was not this swollen-headed upstart trying to intimidate him by threats?
From The Conflict by David Graham Phillips
“You’ll make me swollen-headed in a moment, you two.”
From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton