self-aggrandising

Really, anyone who chooses a fictional self-aggrandising cubicle dweeb as his screen name gets all the abuse he deserves.

Think Progress » Obama on Tea Partiers: “You would think they would be saying, ‘Thank you’” for my tax cuts. 2010

I predict that within a short period of time Bercow's or his wife's ego, avarice and self-aggrandising habits - with a little help from a few resentful MPs no doubt - will combine and he will let himself down and resign.

The Speaker: Bercow's boundaries | Editorial 2011

The chief enemy of excellence in morality (and also in art) is personal fantasy, the tissue of self-aggrandising and consoling wishes and dreams which prevents one from seeing what there is outside one ....

A Conversation with Zadie Smith about On Beauty 2010

No self-indulgent twaddle, no luvvy duvvy waffle, no tedious explaining what we're looking at, no extraneous family members self-aggrandising and hogging the airtime with totally irrelevant bullshit.

Update karenmiller 2009

With a wry self-deprecating humour that stops her from coming across as self-aggrandising, GIlbert roots the trope of the tortured artist in this, asks if maybe this is a cause for all those suicides and self-destructions.

Genius in a Bottle Hal Duncan 2009

It was so shocking, so absurd in its self-aggrandising amorality, that it has automatically filed itself in the "satire" section of my memory bank.

The psychology of Paul McMullan and his phone-hacking justifications | Deborah Orr 2011

With a wry self-deprecating humour that stops her from coming across as self-aggrandising, GIlbert roots the trope of the tortured artist in this, asks if maybe this is a cause for all those suicides and self-destructions.

Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Isolation did not suit Gaddafi's his self-aggrandising, showman side, nor were his banknote-scattering, one-man African tours sufficient to feed his ego.

Gaddafi: a vicious, sinister despot driven out on tidal wave of hatred 2011

The effect of seeing individuals separated from the crowd, alone in the dock, seemed to demand a less self-aggrandising kind of human judgment, though.

England riots: justice grinds on as courts sit through the night 2011

Sounds like I'm being self-aggrandising, and that's not my intention: I just think it's important to note that news-stand titles still have a place and can deliver a valuable (if differently paced) service.

Starlog To Cease Magazine Publication 2009