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- verb Present participle of
aggrandize .
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Examples
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This self aggrandizing is convinced that she's on the road to sainthood.
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But paying it forward occasionally without whining or salf-aggrandizing is part of being a well-rounded human being: -.
I Will Not Read Your F'ing Script Lou Anders 2009
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Now, granted that the Pulitzer is a prize given by journalists, and so they may have a stake in aggrandizing the newspaper reviewer, one of their own.
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I’ll do something terrible and self-aggrandizing here (although self-aggrandizing is certainly the wrong word in this context) and refer you to something I did several years ago mocking a living Irish writer: for “Fergus”, read “Seamus”: here.
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Thousands of accounts with hundreds of self-aggrandizing tweets to -- almost no one.
Most impressive? The real message of the 2011 Grammys Alexandra Petri 2011
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You didn't want to seem forced or self-aggrandizing; you simply wanted to set a few proposals in motion and explore where that motion took you.
Peter Frank: Pioneering Art: Three Retrospectives At LACMA Peter Frank 2011
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In fact, a search for "OXFAM Haiti Report" on their website will lead directly to their self-aggrandizing "progress report" before you can find their analysis of the reconstruction failures.
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti Still Buried Under the Rubble of Dueling NGOs: OXFAM Report Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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You didn't want to seem forced or self-aggrandizing; you simply wanted to set a few proposals in motion and explore where that motion took you.
Peter Frank: Pioneering Art: Three Retrospectives At LACMA Peter Frank 2011
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In fact, a search for "OXFAM Haiti Report" on their website will lead directly to their self-aggrandizing "progress report" before you can find their analysis of the reconstruction failures.
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti Still Buried Under the Rubble of Dueling NGOs: OXFAM Report Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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Then I remember how condescending, self-aggrandizing, ignorant and just awful you are, and I feel ok. theAmericanist says:
Barb699 commented on the word aggrandizing
U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the Parliament in Ankara on Monday, in one of the most aggrandizing approaches that we have seen in years.
April 7, 2009