NOUN
- an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance
How To Use self-aggrandisement In A Sentence
- Lord Myners attacks bankers 'greed and finds God minister appointed to clean up the City, is so disenchanted by bankers' greed and self-aggrandisement that he is planning to become a theology student. WN.com - Business News
- With little to occupy their inner lives, they settle on sophomoric backbiting and relentless self-aggrandisement as the closest achievable thing to an actually mature expression of emotion or contact between two human beings.
- For all that Netanyahu's innate arrogance and self-aggrandisement was laid bare by the contents of the nine-year-old recording, the collective shrugging of shoulders implies that few expected anything else from a man who has been boasting of his own political prowess throughout his tumultuous career. Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker
- This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement. How Not to be a Writer
- For the furtherance of his own career and self-aggrandisement, Hain knowingly accepted the work load of two departments. Archive 2008-01-01
- He was a humble, self-effacing man, not given to self-aggrandisement of any sort.
- For the furtherance of his own career and self-aggrandisement, Hain knowingly accepted the work load of two departments. Archive 2008-01-01
- The fact that you know someone in the security services indicates nothing other than your appetite for self-aggrandisement. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- He never sought managerial power for self-aggrandisement. Times, Sunday Times
- That he served with Kennedy's example in mind indicates he was actuated more by self-aggrandisement than altruism.