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Adjective
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Some older creep takes you aside and teaches you how to manipulate your girlfriends like a narcissistic abuse apprenticeship program?—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
10 Feb. 2026 -
His comments were grievance-filled, narcissistic, conspiratorial, factually false, divisive, and insulting.—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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The attention to amusing detail is evident throughout, from the vainglorious mayor’s ample display of chest fur to the very long wintry outfit Gary De’Snake wears in snowy conditions.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Nov. 2025
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All but the most vainglorious architects imagine that their buildings will change in some small way after completion.—
Anthony Paletta,
Curbed,
2 Sep. 2025
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A lot of tennis players are so egocentric.—
Patrick McEnroe,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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But research on egocentric bias shows that leaders vastly overestimate how much audiences care about the company's journey.—
Harrison Monarth,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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In hindsight, that moment of hubristic braggadocio may have provoked the wrath of the retail gods.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
19 Nov. 2025
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In our own history, the failures of the Vietnam and Iraq wars owed less to insufficient brawn than to arrogance, cultural blindness, and the hubristic dismissal of diplomacy as weakness.—
Loree Sutton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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But there’s a throughline in Smith’s most popular works — he’s been cast repeatedly as a villain, and usually an arrogant or smug one.—
Sophia Solano,
Washington Post,
7 Feb. 2026
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But that poem is no smug cliché.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
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Over time, some officers showed a boastful disdain for parts of the population they were expected to protect.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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Emmanwori speaks with a matter-of-fact confidence that’s not boastful.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2026
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Bassel stands at the center of the frame, looking cocky and slightly bored, with his parents seated in front of him and his siblings on either side.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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Their roles are reversed when O’Brien’s cocky, young CEO must look to McAdams’ strategic planning and survival know-how to stay alive.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
30 Jan. 2026
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Well, now is not the time for the Giants to get complacent.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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One theory is that complacent Republicans stayed at home.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Orgulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orgulous. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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