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Definition of Self-aggrandising
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of self-aggrandizement.
2. Adjective. Exhibiting self-importance. "Big talk"
Similar to: Proud
Derivative terms: Boastfulness, Brag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-aggrandising
Literary usage of Self-aggrandising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The March of the Ten Thousand: Being a Translation of the Anabasis, Preceded by Xenophon, Henry Graham Dakyns (1901)
"This man has none of the self-aggrandising dash of Alcibiades. For vested authority
he has an infinite respect. It is astonishing how readily he accepts the ..."
2. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"Education has become a bureaucracy, and, like other bureaus, it is steadily
settling down into a self-contained, self-satisfied, if not self-aggrandising ..."
3. The Works of Xenophon by Xenophon, Henry Graham Dakyns (1890)
"This man has none of the self-aggrandising dash of Alcibiades. For vested authority
he has an infinite respect. It is astonishing how readily he accepts the ..."
4. A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City by Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley (1861)
"Away with such self-important, self-aggrandising, and self-willed demagogues!
their friendship is colder than polar ice; and their professions meaner than ..."
5. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1885)
"The tempter was allowed to suggest to Him ways of self-sparing and self-aggrandising,
but there was nothing in the mind or heart of the Man Christ Jesus to ..."
6. Atonement and Personality by Robert Campbell Moberly (1907)
"... there is self-aggrandising philanthropy, selfish love of unselfishness,
self-centred self- sacrifice ;1 until we sometimes fairly reel with the sense of ..."
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