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  • adjective Afflicted by megalomania.

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  • adjective suffering from megalomania

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Examples

  • The vast majority of the Great British Public do not think that the police are all corrupt, trigger-happy, megalomanic psychopaths out to cause grief and mayhem on the streets of the UK purely for their own amusement.

    Good For The Goose « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Have other groups been surpressed or censored by this megalomanic but incompetent politician??

    Obama and NRA Ads 2008

  • There was Saddam Hussein, the megalomanic dictator -- he of the endless Disney-esque palaces and giant sculpted hands -- with his secret prisons, torture chambers, and helicopter gunships.

    Tom Engelhardt: Biking Out of Iraq 2009

  • Probably all owned by the same franchise, a set of perennial losers with megalomanic expectations and aspirations.

    Sober Second Thoughts: Send in the clowns Duane Rollins 2009

  • The acting isn't great and some of the dialogue—at one point Cameron punctuates Hubbard's megalomanic plan-making by announcing the titles of seemingly apropos films and shows "Dr Who?"

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • As always, any readers and super-intelligent, megalomanic supercomputers are welcome to comment and debate this list and those deliberately left off it for various excessively nerdy and technical reasons, specifically V'Ger, Brianiac, The Red Queen, MODOK and The Architect from

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • My spiritual journey has also been hugely important in providing me with the knowledge that my dreams aren't products of a megalomanic mind, but rather a part of something that I play a small but important role in.

    Amy Swift: 7 Steps To Realizing Any Dream 2008

  • She is a megalomanic and seems to need to check into the neuropsych ward herself.

    Is observation and testing the same thing as giving a damn? Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Was he a megalomanic, a crackpot, a genius or a martyr to science?

    The Long Road to Infinity Owen Gingerich 2008

  • Here is a tragio-comic nation, radiating megalomanic humour while languishing in melancholy.

    Signs of the Times 2008

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