self-aggrandizing

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self-aggrandizing

A politician gave a self-aggrandizing speech about his own achievements.

Definition
  1. 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.
self-aggrandizing

A politician gave a self-aggrandizing speech about his own achievements.

Adjective
  1. exhibiting self-importance
    • big talk
  2. of or relating to or characteristic of self-aggrandizement

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