self-inflation
- a word derived from inflation.
Example Sentences
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Both museums underscore the danger of too much institutional self-inflation.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022
Apparently no actor, not Gunn or even Olivier, can bring himself to expose the actorish self-absorption and self-inflation that push Othello to his doom.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sad fact is that this wheedling self-inflation is unnecessary.
From Time Magazine Archive
To arrive at that pinnacle, Vesco used an innate talent for self-inflation and conspicuous consumption.
From Time Magazine Archive
If they are regarded as actual evils, they will probably be endured with sullenness, or submitted to with defiance and scorn, or surmounted with pride and self-inflation.
From A Manual of Moral Philosophy by Peabody, Andrew P. (Andrew Preston)
