self-dramatizing

adjective

Definition of self-dramatizingnext
as in egotistical

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  1. egotistical
  2. bumptious
  3. vainglorious
  4. arrogant
  5. self-aggrandizing
  6. self-centered
  7. self-important
  8. conceited
Adjective
  • And with Elon Musk playing a key role in this new administration, who knows in which direction his bombastic, egotistical whims may take AI development?
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • From this noble, if admittedly egotistical goal, come gaslighting, madness, war, self-mutilation, and murder.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of egotistical
Adjective
  • Trump lied incessantly and extravagantly in his bumptious bid for president, after racking up more than 30,500 false or misleading statements during four years in the White House, according to fact-checkers at the Washington Post.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Despite lines that are initially chatty and chirpy, Corden shows how bumptious his character really is.
    David Benedict, Variety, 26 June 2024
Definition of bumptious
Adjective
  • Daemon, Viserys’s vainglorious younger brother, had married his niece in part as a way to strengthen his own bid for the throne, and Alicent had pushed for the ascension of her immature firstborn, Aegon.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Debuting March 3, the six-part realpolitik satire, created and executive produced by Succession alum Will Tracy, sees Oscar and Emmy winner Winslet return to HBO in an often hilarious role as the vainglorious Elena.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 June 2024
Definition of vainglorious
Adjective
  • Nobody wants to be around an arrogant or disrespectful individual, in the workplace or in day-to-day life.
    AllBusiness, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • So Far Trump in fact as played by Stan is a mix of charming and shy, troubled and insecure, arrogant and angry, a creative dealmaker with vision, narcissitic, cruel, self-serving, at times grief stricken.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of arrogant
Adjective
  • Classifying what Piece by Piece will be exactly, especially in the often self-aggrandizing realm of the musical biopic, is a challenge.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
  • The rise of Huawei is painstakingly rendered in a small library of self-aggrandizing literature that the company publishes, including several volumes of quotes from its founder.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2020
Definition of self-aggrandizing
Adjective
  • So, how do good leaders operate with confidence without coming across as arrogant or self-centered?
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • To be clear, sperm donation is, obviously, not an inherently evil or self-centered act.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of self-centered
Adjective
  • Unsurprisingly, the small army of senior executives with make-work jobs and self-important titles, who add little to nothing to build Hearst’s brands, apparently made it through today relatively unscathed.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Finally, someone is standing up and holding the fat, middle-aged White reporter accountable, and there’s nobody in the world that dislikes it less to be held accountable than the fat, middle-aged, White, self-important columnist at a newspaper.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2024
Definition of self-important
Adjective
  • Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Not to sound so conceited and absolute.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2022
Definition of conceited
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