SELF-IMPORTANT


Meaning of SELF-IMPORTANT in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

As a waiter, he had grown to despise self-important customers.

He was one of those self-important little officials who made everyone call him "Sir".

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

For some self-important reason, he felt it necessary to examine my action.

He was a choleric, self-important little man.

More self-indulgent self-important twaddle, the product of a rock star who really did believe his own press, his own myth.

Seeing beyond overt status People become self-important to counteract and to attack the fear that they are insignificant.

The chief inspector suddenly understood that the historian's self-important but indomitable spirit was housed in a broken body.

The history of the world becomes brutally self-important without love.

The other was older, tall as Trollope and had a surly self-important air about her.

Without the royal family, titles would be just that - forms of address for the self-important to dignify themselves.

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