Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or practice of enhancing or exaggerating one's own importance, power, or reputation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The aggrandizement of one's self.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or action of making oneself seem more
important . An act ofpride orboasting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance
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Examples
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I make up with true friends who accidentally hurt my feelings through acts of self-aggrandizement, neglect and unwanted pity.
Cheryl Pearl Sucher: Life Is Prayer During The Days Of Awe Cheryl Pearl Sucher 2011
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I make up with true friends who accidentally hurt my feelings through acts of self-aggrandizement, neglect and unwanted pity.
Cheryl Pearl Sucher: Life Is Prayer During The Days Of Awe Cheryl Pearl Sucher 2011
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Saddam replaced some of the ancient Sumerian bricks containing the first language of cuneiform with his own inscriptions of self-aggrandizement.
Rajai Hakki: An Arab-American Iraq War Veteran Returns to the Middle East, Rajai Hakki 2011
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American self-aggrandizement, like all others I believe, is just communal biology at work and based on a deep-rooted drive to survive.
Joe Woodward: Occup(ied) America: A Literary History Joe Woodward 2011
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Saddam replaced some of the ancient Sumerian bricks containing the first language of cuneiform with his own inscriptions of self-aggrandizement.
Rajai Hakki: An Arab-American Iraq War Veteran Returns to the Middle East, Rajai Hakki 2011
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In Death of a Thousand Cuts, the murder victims life was motivated by self-aggrandizement.
An Interview with Barbara D'Amato about Death of a Thousand Cuts 2010
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Perhaps the public has good reason to think that the media's self-aggrandizement gets in the way of solving the country's real problems
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Ready your TV and your stomach for an hour of smears, self-aggrandizement and, with any luck, an airing of the issues facing California: Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown meet tonight in Davis for the first of three televised debates.
Stakes Are High For Brown And Whitman In First Debate The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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A former White House chief of staff for President George H.W. Bush, Mr. Sununu described Mr. Gingrich as having a penchant for "self-aggrandizement" and "off-the-cuff thinking" that "is not what you want in a commander-in-chief."
Tough Talk as Romney Takes Aim at Gingrich Jonathan Weisman 2011
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American self-aggrandizement, like all others I believe, is just communal biology at work and based on a deep-rooted drive to survive.
Joe Woodward: Occup(ied) America: A Literary History Joe Woodward 2011
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