self-adulatory

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-adulatory
Adjective
  • From there, the team set about making Victor feel comfortable and confident as both a filmmaker and a performer.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
  • Actually, confident isn’t extreme enough of a word.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Such perspectives make Wax’s Izzy a multi-layered and often contradictory character: self-assured, yet also self-doubting; brazen, yet guilty; fearless, yet also fearful.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 13 June 2025
  • Dressed in jeans, a simple white tank top and some Birkenstocks, Carmichael appears more self-assured than ever.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • That’s far more than hollow audit committee charters, toothless assurance models and self-congratulatory periodic reporting.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
  • This presumes the candidate already delivers quality work, inadvertently steering them toward giving a self-congratulatory response.
    Shiran Danoch, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • Iran is not a backward place, even if its current government is backward-looking and selfish.
    Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2025
  • There’s nobody selfish, one through nine, and the bench players, too.
    Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 21 June 2025
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“Self-adulatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-adulatory. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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