self-important

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ADJECTIVE
  1. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
    chesty as a peacock
    an arrogant official
    arrogant claims
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How To Use self-important In A Sentence

  • Self-important, condescending, Casaubon hopes that Dorothea will carry on his work after his death, “the lonely labor, the ambition breathing hardly under the pressure of self-distrust,” even though it would entomb her. Archive 2009-12-01
  • Because, of course, the self-important ninnies who compile such things, complacent in their arrogance that their opinions matter, really haven't a clue what they're talking about in most cases.
  • What in the hell is the self-important blithesome texter rocking as a hairstyle? Smoked Salmon: Lock Your Bike, Don't Lox It
  • As it is, Martin is a dreadful bore - arrogant, self-important and so egocentric it's a wonder he had time to obsess about anyone other than himself.
  • The blogger, surely, must be far too self-important to think anyone cares what she consumed each day.
  • But this self-important pooh-bah is more than an ominous senior legal and political figure.
  • How glorious to puncture the pomposity of the self-important. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those inept, self-important idiots ran that place into the ground, creating unnecessary crises through decades of obstinate mismanagement.
  • We already have one self-important narcissist who makes political alliances (and betrayals) based on personal pique. How the worm has turned in Virginia. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
  • It was funny that two former fashion victims now find their former world overbearing and self-important.
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