self-exalting
- a word derived from exalt.
Example Sentences
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If there were a Best High-Budget Selfies award, Bradley Cooper would have little competition for his self-exalting direction and performance in “A Star Is Born.”
From The New Yorker • Feb. 22, 2019
Answers to personal and political struggles can’t be found in the next great politicians, in any self-exalting self-help seminar, or in the next cultural trend.
From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2015
Ah, how unlike the ministry of the Son of man had been Blair's proud, self-exalting, unloving demeanor.
From The Boy Patriot by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
But I knew that she was not to be won 'with prayers, and with whinings, and with self-exalting pains.'
From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Heyse, Paul
He is not self-exalting, and therefore he stands high; and inasmuch as he does not strive, no one in all the world strives with him.
From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Besant, Annie Wood
