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Recent Examples of self-glorifying
And it could be accelerated by the continued rise of angry, resentful, self-glorifying nationalism in many countries.
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Michael J. Mazarr, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2022
Michael J. Mazarr, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-glorifying
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
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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Matt and his direct reports quickly reveal themselves to be spineless, self-important, thin-skinned, and out of touch.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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His cruel caricature of the technocratic, self-important, and sometimes petty bureaucratic culture of the commission is largely accurate.—
Andrew Moravcsik,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Dec. 2019
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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Jain didn’t barge onto the scene with the pompous bravado as many others do.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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The entire episode elicits the kind of pompous stench that has long prompted ill feelings toward Michigan — a sentiment magnified by the actions and attitudes that led to the investigation at hand.—
Mitch Sherman,
New York Times,
14 May 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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Instead he might have been remembered as another god or angel among many, who came down for a while to heal some bodies, heal some souls, who tried in vain to teach us how to get back to the radix of our lives, then left again.—
Lamorna Ash,
The Dial,
6 May 2025
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Fearing that Williams might go to the New Orleans Saints at No. 9, the 49ers tried in vain to trade up to No. 8 with the Carolina Panthers.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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Employees tend to react negatively when engaging with prideful leaders, and feeling ignored can impact loyalty, engagement and productivity.—
Richard Polak,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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As this lunar phase takes place in Leo — one of the most expressive and prideful in the zodiac — the energy really cranks up.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
2 May 2025
Cite this Entry
“Self-glorifying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-glorifying. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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