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Recent Examples of self-flattering
Sugimoto’s ecoformalism consists in challenging this self-flattering intuition.
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Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Not waste time on glib and self-flattering diversions.
—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
Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Not waste time on glib and self-flattering diversions.
—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
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Today’s young men came of age on the social internet, during the upheavals of COVID-19, and under the political dominance of the most narcissistic and superficial president in American history.—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2026
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Was Kiritsis a narcissistic madman or a schmuck who’d put too much trust in the American ideals of hard work and fair treatment?—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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As of this week, thanks to the egocentric exertions of the current President and his obedient underlings and friends, the place has been renamed the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
20 Dec. 2025
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As a chef’s kiss, Manning plays for Texas, a yearslong egocentric underachiever that plenty of college football fans love to hate.—
Blake Toppmeyer,
USA TODAY,
9 Oct. 2025
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In hindsight, that moment of hubristic braggadocio may have provoked the wrath of the retail gods.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
19 Nov. 2025
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In our own history, the failures of the Vietnam and Iraq wars owed less to insufficient brawn than to arrogance, cultural blindness, and the hubristic dismissal of diplomacy as weakness.—
Loree Sutton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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The Pitt definitely feels like the type of workplace where conceited doctors-in-training are pretty much guaranteed to quickly get knocked down a peg.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
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But Grande’s conceited blonde bubblehead gains in stature here as Glinda assumes statesmanlike responsibility to spread goodness in Oz, while experiencing crushing romantic disappointment that humbles her and deflates her vanity.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Nov. 2025
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Starring Oscar Isaac as a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a monstrous creature (played by Jacob Elordi) to life despite all odds and with dire consequences.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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In Lively’s version of events, Baldoni was an egotistical, posturing actor, who tried to present himself as an enlightened male feminist.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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But that poem is no smug cliché.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
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Marcello is looking especially smug and evil in this scene for reasons unclear.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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Market watchers said the increases are not investors being complacent, but fundamentals like the absence of major oil shocks and the expectation that easier monetary policy and AI spending will continue to underpin earnings growth.—
Chloe Taylor,Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2026
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So why is Sacramento allowing cities to be so complacent in their fiscal reporting responsibilities?—
John Moorlach,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Jan. 2026
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The attention to amusing detail is evident throughout, from the vainglorious mayor’s ample display of chest fur to the very long wintry outfit Gary De’Snake wears in snowy conditions.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Nov. 2025
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All but the most vainglorious architects imagine that their buildings will change in some small way after completion.—
Anthony Paletta,
Curbed,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Self-flattering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-flattering. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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