Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who aggrandizes or exalts in power, rank, or honor. Also spelled
aggrandiser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who aggrandizes, or makes great.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who makes great or
aggrandizes .
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Examples
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Weeks later, spurred by your constant reference to your supposedly great experience and its authority, I looked you up to see who this Aspergery self-aggrandizer who spews the great American novel about angels on the head of a pin could be.
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I was probably one of the people who questioned his honesty, because he is a notorious self-aggrandizer,
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He's the aggrandizer of trivia, spinning it into gold.
James Scarborough: "An Evening With Garrison Keillor," Carpenter Performing Arts Center James Scarborough 2010
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He's the aggrandizer of trivia, spinning it into gold.
James Scarborough: "An Evening With Garrison Keillor," Carpenter Performing Arts Center James Scarborough 2010
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I was probably one of the people who questioned his honesty, because he is a notorious self-aggrandizer, so now, whenever he turns up, he posts the history to show that he really did write it.
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He's the aggrandizer of trivia, spinning it into gold.
James Scarborough: "An Evening With Garrison Keillor," Carpenter Performing Arts Center James Scarborough 2010
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It seems that everyone on the entire internet – liberal, conservative, old, young, male, female – thinks you are an insufferable self-aggrandizer with an addled brain.
Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss 2010
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I know that Oakland spawns a peculiar breed of extremely arrogant, self-entitled and puffed up politician and bureaucrat - people who make Los Angeles County Supervisor and career self-aggrandizer Mark Ridley-Thomas look like an amateur.
May 2010 2010
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I know that Oakland spawns a peculiar breed of extremely arrogant, self-entitled and puffed up politician and bureaucrat - people who make Los Angeles County Supervisor and career self-aggrandizer Mark Ridley-Thomas look like an amateur.
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In their interior conscience, humans judge themselves not by the standard of the shrewd self-aggrandizer but by that of the impartial spectator.
Morality is more about what you should do than what you actually do « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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