self-aggrandizement
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Origin of self-aggrandizement
First recorded in 1790–1800
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In it, he lambasted the ways in which art “has just become a cruddy game for the self aggrandizement for the rich and the ignorant.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2018
Not that these excercizes in self aggrandizement really matter, but how can a program not broadcast for "how long" be nominated for anything?
From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2018
They were all in it for self aggrandizement, just like their boss.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2018
Two cowards who used everyone in their trail for their own self aggrandizement.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2016
These tyrants—for it was very seldom that the poor and ignorant New Mexicans were favored with a good, wise and just governor—governed on the principle of self aggrandizement.
From The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself by Peters, de Witt C.
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