inflation
noun
a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
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
And Roy Cohn, thanks to a lifetime process of self-inflation, presented a lovely target.
From Time Magazine Archive
To arrive at that pinnacle, Vesco used an innate talent for self-inflation and conspicuous consumption.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He has assigned, among other grounds for this vulgar opinion, its power of abstinence, and its faculty of self-inflation.
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
