Definition of self-aggrandizing
: acting or intended to enhance one's power, wealth, position, or reputation
- … staggeringly self-aggrandizing greed and theft …
- —William J. Astore
- … a self-aggrandizing cad bent on gathering for himself whatever spoils he can amass from the public coffers.
- —Paul Beckett
- self-aggrandizing remarks
- … the skill of talking about yourself in a natural way without coming off as a self-aggrandizing braggart.
- —Jim Murray
- … whose dishonest, self-aggrandizing memoirs adroitly snookered the public …
- —Frank Rich
- We hear of the self-aggrandizing fantasies which he told his sisters, as tales to amuse them.
- —Robert Penn Warren
- … was publicly suspended with no pay for six months after it emerged that he repeatedly told a self-aggrandizing, false story about being aboard a military helicopter hit by an RPG over Iraq.
- —Kieran Corcoran and Christopher Brennan
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self-aggrandizement
play \ˌself-ə-ˈgran-dəz-mənt, -ˌdīz- also -ˌa-grən-ˈdīz-\ noun, plural self-aggrandizements-
- … the construction of monumental buildings for self-aggrandizement.
- —Beatrice Forbes Manz
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- A native reticence, almost an aversion to anything that might be construed as boasting or self-aggrandizement, is paired with innate optimism, loyalty and a quiet determination.
- —Steven Winn
