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megalomania

[ UK /mˌɛɡələmˈe‍ɪni‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˌmɛɡəɫoʊˈmeɪniə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur

How To Use megalomania In A Sentence

  • There's no insight into Alexander's transition from beloved leader to drunken megalomaniac; one minute he has his subjects hanging on his every word, and then next thing you know he's declaring himself a god.
  • The game is designed to be fun to play and a lighthearted approach to being a evil scheming megalomaniac, so although there are many different ways of being evil, there is no slavery or genocide.
  • At best, he's a vain, insecure man; at worst, he's a paranoid megalomaniac narcissist.
  • Stone and Parker are unafraid of lampooning both paranoid megalomania and the inane platitudes of Hollywood superstars.
  • The real blame for the continuation in office of the increasingly megalomaniacal Maire lies with the Liberals.
  • Blofeldism, an impossible and megalomaniac belief in world domination, is a perfect parody of Nazism and Stalinism —just as empty and just as deluded, although, thanks to 007, not nearly as deadly.
  • Though cross-island expressways had been envisioned by the Regional Plan Association in the 1920s, it was in the postwar years that the megalomaniacal urban planner Robert Moses made Lomex — a proposed 200-foot-wide swath along Broome Street requiring the demolition of buildings housing at least 1,972 families and 804 businesses — the centerpiece of his vision to modernize New York. Indignation Superhighway
  • His brash style and megalomania also make him enemies.
  • With its bad language and schoolboy humour, Alfred Jarry's first and most influential play is the story of Mum and Dad Ubu, two gloriously evil megalomaniacs, who spur each other on to overthrow the regime.
  • Her mind had not had time to deal with the wider implications of all that sadistic megalomania trapped inside the woman who ruled Medalon. TREASON KEEP
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