aggrandizing
- present participle of aggrandize.
Example Sentences
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It seems aggrandizing and selfish to dwell on it when there are many people who lost everything in the course of that single day.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2022
His self-made story is tantalizing enough but Western media can’t resist aggrandizing the hardship.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2022
But there is no noblesse oblige or courtly love, no dragons, witchy women or aggrandizing British accents.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2021
Fatherhood for me rests somewhere between selfless sacrifice and aggrandizing self-preservation.
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2021
The only option left to him as a conqueror was to continue aggrandizing himself at the expense of China.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
