Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Too favorable to one's self; involving too high an idea of one's own virtue or power.
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Examples
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Philotas was prone to self-flattering pillow talk and frequently told Antigone that Alexander was little more than a boy who owed all his success in war to himself and Parmenion.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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For illumination, we might turn to the well-known SF novel, Eifelheim, but this too may be regarded as self-flattering.
August 4th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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But none of Japan's many impromptu first responders, or the hundreds of thousands of others who do the essential work of service every day around the world, are ever likely to be seen on a film festival's red carpet or on the cover of a self-flattering book.
Humble Self, to the Rescue Meghan Clyne 2011
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Philotas was prone to self-flattering pillow talk and frequently told Antigone that Alexander was little more than a boy who owed all his success in war to himself and Parmenion.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The latter is a self-flattering mythos, but likely no more true than the former.
August 4th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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The constituencies for each display a cult-like belief in their own superiority, combined with a self-flattering view of themselves as bravely enduring persecution and unfair victimization.
Ellis Weiner: Rapture And Rand: Peas In A Pod Ellis Weiner 2011
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Philotas was prone to self-flattering pillow talk and frequently told Antigone that Alexander was little more than a boy who owed all his success in war to himself and Parmenion.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The constituencies for each display a cult-like belief in their own superiority, combined with a self-flattering view of themselves as bravely enduring persecution and unfair victimization.
Ellis Weiner: Rapture And Rand: Peas In A Pod Ellis Weiner 2011
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Their is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all at once.
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Some media-driven myths can be self-flattering, offering up heroes in a profession more accustomed to scorn and criticism than applause.
W. Joseph Campbell: Getting It Wrong : Why Many of American Journalism's Most Cherished Stories Are Exaggerated or Apocryphal W. Joseph Campbell 2010
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