self-important
adjective
self-im·por·tant
ˌself-im-ˈpȯr-tᵊnt 
-tənt
: having or showing self-importance
self-importantly
adverb
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The result is Shin Godzilla, a bone-dry satire of government impotence and self-important bureaucrats that’s the most realistic installment in the series since the original.
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Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
Not everyone is bland, gossipy and self-important anywhere.
—Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
The series is sincere but not self-important, slightly silly but not embarrassed about it.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
And everything is so self-important and self-serious.
—Lauren Goode Michael Calore, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
The technology world can be, to its detriment, too analytical, sort of arrogant, and self-important, and those characteristics are anti-empathy.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
When the Court moved into its new building—a building so ostentatiously self-important, down to the last trimmings, that reporters likened it to an icebox decorated by a mad upholsterer—the Justices struck down more than a dozen laws in eighteen months.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
The fact is that bringing together a host of successful but self-important luminaries to forecast the future is a mug’s game.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
The people are bland, gossipy and self-important while my friends and family are almost a thousand miles away.
—Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
Not everyone is bland, gossipy and self-important anywhere.
—Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
The series is sincere but not self-important, slightly silly but not embarrassed about it.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
And everything is so self-important and self-serious.
—Lauren Goode Michael Calore, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
The technology world can be, to its detriment, too analytical, sort of arrogant, and self-important, and those characteristics are anti-empathy.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
When the Court moved into its new building—a building so ostentatiously self-important, down to the last trimmings, that reporters likened it to an icebox decorated by a mad upholsterer—the Justices struck down more than a dozen laws in eighteen months.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
The fact is that bringing together a host of successful but self-important luminaries to forecast the future is a mug’s game.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
The people are bland, gossipy and self-important while my friends and family are almost a thousand miles away.
—Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
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“Self-important.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-important. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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