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• a  of or relating to or characteristic of self-aggrandizement
• s  exhibiting self-importance

• Too self-aggrandizing and you're a bad word unless it's about a dog, or Project Runway's Kenley.
• Like the movie itself, she's neither self-pitying nor self-aggrandizing--just real, wry as she deals with a hard-knock life.
• This portrait should surprise no one, given that just about every person who launches a self-aggrandizing anti-government terror campaign is described in precisely those terms.

• self-aggrandising
• boastful
• braggart
• bragging
• braggy
• big
• cock-a-hoop
• crowing

News & Articles

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• Reconsider worth of gov't contractors
  Whether Edward Snowden is a self-aggrandizing narcissist or a legitimate whistleblower remains to be seen. The most curious thing about his circumstance is that, while entrusted with highly classified information, he was an employee of a government contr
  June 15, 2013 - The Hazleton Standard-Speaker
• Outsourcing secret data
  Whether Edward Snowden is a self-aggrandizing narcissist or a legitimate whistleblower remains to be seen. The most curious thing about his circumstance is that he was an employee of a government contractor rather than of the National Security Agency. Mr
  June 13, 2013 - The Scranton Times-Tribune
• Dialogue needed on farming out intelligence work
  Whether Edward Snowden is a self-aggrandizing narcissist or a legitimate whistleblower remains to be seen. The most curious thing about his circumstance is that, while entrusted with highly classified information, he was an employee of a government contr
  June 13, 2013 - The Citizens' Voice

Quotes

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• David Chase in Washington Post
  In a 2002 court filing, Chase called Baer's claims "grossly distorted, petulant and self-aggrandizing" and that Baer provided a "modest service," arranging to introduce him to individuals who were experienced in certain facets of organized crime.
• Garth Turner in Globe and Mail
  You might not agree with everything the man says, but you have to admire this about him,Mr. Turner wrote. "He stood up once to the self-aggrandizing, hostile, me-first, greedy, macho, selfish and balkanizing separatist losers in...
• Henry Blodget in mediabistro.com (blog)
  Last week, Henry Blodget said CNBC's Jim Cramer gives "terrible investment advice" and advised people not to trust stock picks from "a chair-throwing, self-aggrandizing clown."