Example Sentences

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That sounds really self-flattering to say but she’s a baby of the family and was taken care of like the baby of the family.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

But as with Ye's own self-flattering narrative, "taking responsibility" in this context does nothing for women's autonomy.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2022

From the hindsight of 2022, it was a prescient look at how young people would use social media to turn experience into neat, self-flattering images as a way of presenting oneself to the world.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2022

There are a lot of movies about movies, and the default is generally self-flattering even at its most cynical.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2019

I have a vague and not very self-flattering idea that she was keeping me up her sleeve, so to speak, for use in order to "save" her father.

From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)