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Definition of self-adulation in English: self-adulationnoun mass nounThe quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance. a pathetic display of pompous self-adulation Example sentencesExamples - He hasn't the time for the denigration of others or self-adulation.
- Self-adulation had prevented him from being quite the universal hero he fancied himself to be in literature, sex, or politics.
- He allowed his soloists to indulge in sheer self-adulation.
- Ethical leaders do not view achievements as the result of their own endeavours deserving of self-adulation.
- It compensates for its physical and spiritual inadequacies with national self-adulation and pompous symbolism.
- His rule was based on fear, torture, patronage, self-adulation and aggrandisement.
- He insulated his activity and science from self-adulation, authoritarianism, and overstatement of its proper role.
- Not only are we a nation of misguided opinions, bad taste and self-adulation, we are also deeply dissatisfied citizens in need of answers and greater meaning.
- A recent book by a professor at the University of Grenoble has at last attacked this cycle of self-adulation.
- The unselfconscious self-adulation with which tradesmen promoted their products seems charmingly free of out and out braggadocio.
Synonyms self-centredness, egocentricity, egomania, self-interest, selfishness, self-seeking, self-serving, self-regard, self-absorption, self-obsession, self-love, narcissism, self-admiration, vanity, conceit, conceitedness, self-conceit, pride, self-esteem, self-importance
Definition of self-adulation in US English: self-adulationnoun The quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance. a pathetic display of pompous self-adulation Example sentencesExamples - His rule was based on fear, torture, patronage, self-adulation and aggrandisement.
- He insulated his activity and science from self-adulation, authoritarianism, and overstatement of its proper role.
- A recent book by a professor at the University of Grenoble has at last attacked this cycle of self-adulation.
- Self-adulation had prevented him from being quite the universal hero he fancied himself to be in literature, sex, or politics.
- It compensates for its physical and spiritual inadequacies with national self-adulation and pompous symbolism.
- He hasn't the time for the denigration of others or self-adulation.
- Not only are we a nation of misguided opinions, bad taste and self-adulation, we are also deeply dissatisfied citizens in need of answers and greater meaning.
- Ethical leaders do not view achievements as the result of their own endeavours deserving of self-adulation.
- The unselfconscious self-adulation with which tradesmen promoted their products seems charmingly free of out and out braggadocio.
- He allowed his soloists to indulge in sheer self-adulation.
Synonyms self-centredness, egocentricity, egomania, self-interest, selfishness, self-seeking, self-serving, self-regard, self-absorption, self-obsession, self-love, narcissism, self-admiration, vanity, conceit, conceitedness, self-conceit, pride, self-esteem, self-importance
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