ADJECTIVE
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having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
chesty as a peacock
an arrogant official
arrogant claims
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.