What does self-aggrandizing mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandisingadjective

    of or relating to or characteristic of self-aggrandizement

  2. boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandisingadjective

    exhibiting self-importance

    "big talk"

Wiktionary

  1. self-aggrandizingadjective

    Describing actions intended to make oneself seem more important. Boastful.

    His self-aggrandizing talk alienated his colleagues who did the work he claimed credit for.

Wikipedia

  1. self-aggrandizing

    Boasting or bragging is speaking with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities. Boasting occurs when someone feels a sense of satisfaction or when someone feels that whatever occurred proves their superiority and is recounting accomplishments so that others will feel admiration or envy.Individuals construct an image of themselves, a personal identity, and present themselves in a manner that is consistent with that image. Theodore Millon theorized that in self-presentation, individuals seek to balance boasting against discrediting themselves with excessive self-promotion or being caught blatantly misrepresenting themselves. Studies show that people often have a limited ability to perceive how their efforts at self-presentation are actually impacting their acceptance and likeability by others.

ChatGPT

  1. self-aggrandizing

    Self-aggrandizing refers to behaving or speaking in a way that makes oneself appear superior, more important or more powerful than others. It often involves exaggerated, boastful claims about one's own abilities, accomplishments or qualities.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-aggrandizing in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-aggrandizing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of self-aggrandizing in a Sentence

  1. Thomas Arnold:

    The recent coverage of AI as a single, unified power is a predictable upshot of a self-aggrandizing Silicon Valley culture that believes it can summon a Godhead.

  2. Joe Biden:

    Barack Obama made that decision knowing if it was wrong, his career was over. I wanted the public to know this is a man with a backbone of steel, that's why I said it. And had I said, but, by the way, when I went up privately I told him to go, it would look like I was self-aggrandizing.

  3. The Republican-controlled Senate:

    Instead of self-victimizing and self-aggrandizing, instead of being spiteful and vindictive, President Trump could have used his nationally televised speech to show some contrition and unite the nation.

  4. Piers Morgan:

    Piers Morgan's turning these briefings into a self-aggrandizing, self-justifying, overly defensive, politically partisan, almost like a rally to Piers Morgan -- almost like what's more important is winning the election in November.

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