puffed-up

[puhft-uhp]

adjective

1. feeling self-important; arrogant; pompous.

2. swollen; puffy.

Example Sentences

One woman sits grinning idiotically at a huge, puffed-up pillow on her lap.

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The puffed-up mostly-men of the Freedom Caucus spit and gibbered about all the ways in which the legislation failed to live up to its promises, even issuing a 15-point memo on the matter.

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"In fact, we look like we're peacefully and freely performing a big, fat show to a puffed-up and hateful power. The message is clear: they have no power over us!"

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In footage filmed for the BBC by a local journalist in Gaza at one of the few remaining bakeries in the centre of the strip, a stream of hot puffed-up pitas roll out of an oven on a conveyor belt.

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It’s a huge blow to his puffed-up brand.

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