Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Important in one's own esteem; pompous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having or manifesting an exaggerated idea of one's own importance or merit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having, or behaving as if having, too
high anopinion of one's ownimportance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
Etymologies
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Examples
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He had no patience for those he called 'self-important corporation types cut out of the same cookie cutter' who tended to stick to what was safe.
April Rudin: Why Parents Must Be On Top of Their Kids' Online Escapades April Rudin 2011
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He had no patience for those he called 'self-important corporation types cut out of the same cookie cutter' who tended to stick to what was safe.
April Rudin: Why Parents Must Be On Top of Their Kids' Online Escapades April Rudin 2011
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He had no patience for those he called 'self-important corporation types cut out of the same cookie cutter' who tended to stick to what was safe.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com April Rudin 2011
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We already have one self-important narcissist who makes political alliances (and betrayals) based on personal pique.
How the worm has turned in Virginia. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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If all this sounds a bit too self-important and ornate, trust me, it isn't.
What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
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"Much of the opera world is self-important and self-satisfied, but Glyndebourne is a great leveler," he says.
Glyndebourne: The Great Leveler Guy Chazan 2011
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Her "Potemkin villages" had deceived the self-important pundit into endorsing absolutism, just as Jean-Paul Sartre would prove vain enough to applaud Stalin.
Why They All Came to Versailles Frederic Raphael 2011
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Yesterday when I said: "I defy you to find a more atrocious, self-indulgent, self-important piece-of-crap tune," I knew someone would find something uniquely interesting.
I Stand Corrected marshallpayne1 2010
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Look for not a whiff of irony in these mutterings of the self-important!
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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Look for not a whiff of irony in these mutterings of the self-important!
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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