adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As a waiter, he had grown to despise self-important customers.
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He was one of those self-important little officials who made everyone call him "Sir".
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For some self-important reason, he felt it necessary to examine my action.
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He was a choleric, self-important little man.
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More self-indulgent self-important twaddle, the product of a rock star who really did believe his own press, his own myth.
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Seeing beyond overt status People become self-important to counteract and to attack the fear that they are insignificant.
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The chief inspector suddenly understood that the historian's self-important but indomitable spirit was housed in a broken body.
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The history of the world becomes brutally self-important without love.
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The other was older, tall as Trollope and had a surly self-important air about her.
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Without the royal family, titles would be just that - forms of address for the self-important to dignify themselves.