1
as in vaingloriousness
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as in self-opinionatedness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-partiality
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The danger, however, is how quickly a mindset like this can enable complacency.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025 -
There were one or two moments of complacency, however.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
22 Aug. 2025
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Instead, the playbook is straightforward – identify a problem, then propose an overly restrictive governing scheme that couches the political favoritism as a beneficial expansion of the regulatory state.—
Wayne Winegarden,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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He was placed on administrative leave in spring 2023 over concerns related to classroom management, professional judgment, and favoritism.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Beauty Sales Stock up on vanity essentials while these beauty favorites are discounted.—
Clara McMahon,
People.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Munger said that Trump was motivated only by vanity and the search for glory and that these things would be very dangerous for someone who becomes president of the United States.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
27 Aug. 2025
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My West Coast chauvinism crumbled during a recent tour of New England beer and baseball.—
Peter Rowe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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Jews and other immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were disproportionately targeted, highlighting the cultural affinities between anti-radicalism and racial and ethnic chauvinism.—
Rick Baldoz,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2025
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On Saturday, on the streets of Washington, Donald Trump will throw himself a costly and ostentatious military parade, a gaudy display of waste and vainglory staged solely to inflate the president’s dirigible-sized ego.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2025
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The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.—
Isaac Butler,
The New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2023
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But even where governments did embrace reforms, cronyism and corruption ensured that protectionism endured.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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Industry analysts hailed the initiative as a timely jolt to the system of old-guard cronyism in Japan’s entertainment industry, which is nonetheless drawing growing global interest thanks to the worldwide popularity of Japanese stories and anime.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
30 July 2025
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The fact that Montreal’s defining MLS traits have been impatience and inconsistency give fans every reason to suspect incompetence until proven otherwise even without the bright red flashing light of supposed nepotism.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Officials declined to say how the agreement solves the nepotism problem, which the state had previously told the company could not be easily fixed.—
Ray Stern,
AZCentral.com,
24 July 2025
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With Mercury retrograde in your sign starting on the 15th, old fears around your self-sufficiency might be resurfacing.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Sep. 2025
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China’s Xi Jinping has pushed long-term industrial and technology agendas, lifting millions from poverty while reorienting China toward self-sufficiency.—
Joel Shulman,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Self-partiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-partiality. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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