How to Use self-aggrandizing in a Sentence

self-aggrandizing

adjective
  • Not for the praise, not for self-aggrandizing satisfaction of a dish made perfectly.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This debut wasn’t a self-aggrandizing spectacle.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
  • This debut wasn’t a self-aggrandizing spectacle.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This self-aggrandizing aria found a large audience, selling more than 100,000 copies in its first week and topping the charts on Amazon.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Because, for all its self-aggrandizing mythology, the modern studio system is just a labor force, and like any workplace, when its employees cease doing their jobs, that’s when the product stops coming.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Obnoxious and self-aggrandizing?
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 7 May 2026
  • Nevertheless, the self-aggrandizing and self-congratulations on display in the first three episodes available for review implies humility may be in short supply.
    — Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 14 May 2026
  • This is, truly, a totally shameless and self-aggrandizing effort on the part of Mayor Trantalis and Commissioner Glassman.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The company director, representing a self-aggrandizing political blowhard, is humiliatingly sidelined, and the workers have a grand time.
    — Andrew Fedorov, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
  • As well as lambasting Shell, this often self-aggrandizing filing out in the low-tech Santa Monica Courthouse has innocuous cameos by the likes of Ari Emanuel and Jay Penske, among others.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The author characterizes Huntington Beach itself as an inherently self-aggrandizing, wealthy coastal enclave unrepresentative of broader California concerns, dismissing the notion that this affluent beach town should serve as a model for statewide governance or the state’s future direction.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026

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