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• n  speaking of yourself in superlatives

• Says he: "The rest of us put up with the arrogance of the lawyersaccept their, rigidities, their partial perceptions, their occasional corruption, their portentous self-praise .
• In his first "state of the nation" report to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party two weeks ago, Mao avoided the self-praise that the world has come to expect of .
• I was not surprised that Vice President Cheney used the self-praise in remarks given two days later.

• boast
• boasting
• jactitation

News & Articles

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• Abbott stumps to rev up GOP women for 2014
  It was a mostly standard stump speech for GOP gubernatorial hopeful Greg Abbott on Friday, mixing criticism of President Barack Obama's policies with self-praise for his actions as Texas attorney general to protect the unborn and promote job creation.
  Oct. 19, 2013 - San Antonio Express-News
• Abbott courts GOP women
  SAN ANTONIO — It was a mostly standard stump speech for GOP gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott on Friday, mixing criticism of President Barack Obama's policies with self-praise for his actions as Texas attorney general to protect the unborn and promote job creation. [...] with an audience of 800 GOP activists at the Texas Federation of Republican Women biennial convention in San Antonio, Abbott ...
  Oct. 18, 2013 - San Antonio Express-News

Quotes

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• Mohsen Mirdamadi in Middle East Times
  Mohsen Mirdamadi, secretary-general of the Iranian Islamic Participation Front, warned that "new sanctions and even more dangerous actions" could result from the president's "self-praise and his sudden and overnight decisions."
• Sir Reg Empey in Belfast Newsletter
  Sir Reg said he was "sick to the back teeth of the DUP's orgy of self-praise and self-promotion".
• Hubert Ingraham in The Freeport News
  Mr. Ingraham said no amount of "self-praise and imagined accounts of supposed advances and transformations can disguise the fact that in four years in office, the Christie administration cannot point to a single original policy initiative in the...