aggrandisement
- a variation of aggrandizement.
Example Sentences
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"It is not only recognition of past endeavours but can also be the opportunity for the recipients to double down on their efforts to serve others selflessly, without personal or financial aggrandisement."
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2023
We return to unpacking Silicon Valley’s accountability problem and popular modes of aggrandisement.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2020
When JCO writes that her memoir is "steeped in the grittiest of details as the bed linens of poor Emma Bovary were steeped in her physical agony", the aggrandisement is embarrassingly explicit.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2011
Haywire The genuine local ads had a "sweet amateurishness" and touching "self aggrandisement" after the slick national advertisements, he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2010
It is too much to pay for any country’s aggrandisement.
From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills
