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Definition of Self-aggrandizing
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
Definition of Self-aggrandizing
1. Adjective. Describing actions intended to make oneself seem more important. Boastful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-aggrandizing
Literary usage of Self-aggrandizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process by Paul Rosenfels (1986)
"When knowledge and insight do not enter the service of an ideal, they become the
tools of self-aggrandizing behavior. Knowledge bestows competitive ..."
2. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White, Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart (1877)
"Not only could he pose as a self-denying man in shadow, but develop into a
self-aggrandizing man in substance. The weapons drawn from the armoury of ..."
3. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1877)
"... pose as a self-denying man in shadow, but develop into a self-aggrandizing
man in substance. The weapons drawn from the armoury of conscience would then ..."
4. Utah and the Mormons: The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs, and by Benjamin G. Ferris (1854)
"Away with such self-important, self-aggrandizing, and self-willed demagogues!
their friendship is colder than polar ice, and their professions meaner than ..."
5. Educational Sociology by David Snedden (1922)
"... that have shaped specific appreciations, ideals, and beliefs out of the plastic
metals of self-preservative and self- aggrandizing instincts of men. ..."
6. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1852)
"The self-aggrandizing motto of Louis XIV's. usurpations. " L'état с' est moi,"
seemed to be converted by his practice into the maxim of self sacrifice li ..."
7. Visible Speech: The Science ... of Universal Alphabetics; Or Self by Alexander Melville Bell (1867)
"... uncompromising people; a predominance of compound rising tones characterizes
vain, forward, self-aggrandizing, shrewd, calculating, clever, insinuating, ..."
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