self-aggrandizing
Definition
- Adjective:
- Exhibiting self-importance; boastful: Characterized by an exaggerated sense of one's own importance, power, or status, often through speech or behavior.
- Of or relating to self-aggrandizement: Pertaining to the act of making oneself appear more powerful, important, or successful than is justified.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- His self-aggrandizing speeches bored the audience, who grew tired of hearing about his supposed achievements.
- The biography was criticized for its self-aggrandizing tone, which seemed more like propaganda than an honest account.
Advanced Usage
- Used to describe narratives, rhetoric, or behavior that is designed primarily to enhance the speaker's or actor's own image, often at the expense of accuracy or humility.
- The CEO's self-aggrandizing version of the company's history ignored the contributions of the entire team.
Variants and Related Words
- Self-aggrandizement (noun): The action or process of making oneself more powerful, wealthy, or important, especially in a boastful or excessive way.
- His career was marked by relentless self-aggrandizement.
Synonyms
- Boastful
- Egotistical
- Pompous
- Vainglorious
Antonyms
- Humble
- Modest
- Self-effacing
Related Phrases/Idioms
- Blowing one's own trumpet: A colloquial idiom similar in meaning to being self-aggrandizing, emphasizing boastful self-praise.
- He spent the whole interview blowing his own trumpet.
Adjective
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exhibiting self-importance
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big talk
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of or relating to or characteristic of self-aggrandizement
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