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Recent Examples of self-flattering
Not waste time on glib and self-flattering diversions.
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Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
Convert a self-flattering remark into a mixture of both humility-based and complaint-based.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The notion that history is a story of progress is another self-flattering illusion.
—Helena Rosenblatt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
Convert a self-flattering remark into a mixture of both humility-based and complaint-based.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The notion that history is a story of progress is another self-flattering illusion.
—Helena Rosenblatt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-flattering
Adjective
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And for any fan of the show — and Wilson’s over-the-top, egotistical Dwight — the lyrics might not be a total surprise.—
Victoria Edel,
People.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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In the 1998 episode, Theroux, 53, appears briefly as an egotistical writer who flirts with Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw at a party.—
John Russell,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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His purpose is solely to stroke his outsized, narcissistic ego to compete with other authoritarian countries such as Russia and North Korea.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
12 May 2025
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The psychologists found Lyle Menendez to be narcissistic.—
Alex Stone,
ABC News,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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Impulsive, egocentric, and mendacious, Trump has, in the same span, set fire to the integrity of his office.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2025
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The two-time Tony Award nominee is currently treading the boards in the musical adaptation of Death Becomes Her, bringing audiences to their feet eight shows a week as Helen Sharp, the downtrodden author in a forever feud with her frenemy, egocentric actress Madeline Ashton (Megan Hilty).—
Dave Quinn,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This is the worst kind of football team: a conceited but objectively mediocre squad.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
17 Nov. 2024
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Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Everyone’s relationship has, yes, seasons, and each couple weathers a few different ones during the show, with smug closeness eroding into terse bitterness, doting affection into resentful frustration.—
Margaret Lyons,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Dissections of power and masculinity that once bristled with adversarial vitality evolved into arid dialectics and windy anecdotes pickled in smug cynicism and lacking in thematic clarity.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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At a time when Villa could have been complacent, McGinn was at his scrapping best, picking the pockets of players outside the box and squaring for Leon Bailey.—
Jacob Tanswell,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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Released the same year as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the short foreshadows films like Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove, and given the context of the civil-rights movement, resonates as a conversation between a complacent white man and a person of color who can hear dog whistles.—
Jeremy Fassler,
Vulture,
2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Ivy-as-Marilyn is an inconsiderate, amphetamine guzzling faux-intellectual whose devotion to the acting craft is presented as a vainglorious affectation.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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The name is meant to evoke Theodore Roosevelt’s vainglorious 1898 cavalry charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
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Her characters, including Belinda and Insecure’s hilariously uninhibited Kelli, are often frustratingly scarce within their respective series.—
Phoebe Reilly,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2025
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This aligns perfectly with Venus in Aries’ love for uninhibited self-expression.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
20 Feb. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Self-flattering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-flattering. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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