self-important

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishself-importantˌself-imˈportant adjective PROUDbehaving in a way that shows you think you are more important than other people – used to show disapproval a self-important pompous little man —self-importance noun [uncountable] —self-importantly adverbExamples from the Corpusself-important• The other was older, tall as Trollope and had a surly self-important air about her.• The chief inspector suddenly understood that the historian's self-important but indomitable spirit was housed in a broken body.• As a waiter, he had grown to despise self-important customers.• He was a choleric, self-important little man.• He was one of those self-important little officials who made everyone call him "Sir".• For some self-important reason, he felt it necessary to examine my action.• Seeing beyond overt status People become self-important to counteract and to attack the fear that they are insignificant.• Without the royal family, titles would be just that - forms of address for the self-important to dignify themselves.• More self-indulgent self-important twaddle, the product of a rock star who really did believe his own press, his own myth.• The history of the world becomes brutally self-important without love.

单词	self-important
释义	self-important From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishself-importantˌself-imˈportant adjective PROUDbehaving in a way that shows you think you are more important than other people – used to show disapproval a self-important pompous little man —self-importance noun [uncountable] —self-importantly adverbExamples from the Corpusself-important• The other was older, tall as Trollope and had a surly self-important air about her.• The chief inspector suddenly understood that the historian's self-important but indomitable spirit was housed in a broken body.• As a waiter, he had grown to despise self-important customers.• He was a choleric, self-important little man.• He was one of those self-important little officials who made everyone call him "Sir".• For some self-important reason, he felt it necessary to examine my action.• Seeing beyond overt status People become self-important to counteract and to attack the fear that they are insignificant.• Without the royal family, titles would be just that - forms of address for the self-important to dignify themselves.• More self-indulgent self-important twaddle, the product of a rock star who really did believe his own press, his own myth.• The history of the world becomes brutally self-important without love.
随便看	to say nothing of to say nothing of something to say the least to scale to side to some degree a certain degree to some degree/to a certain degree to some to a certain degree to somebody’s (great) disappointment to somebody’s amazement to somebody’s amusement to somebody’s annoyance to somebody’s astonishment to somebody’s chagrin to somebody’s credit to somebody’s delight/to the delight of somebody to somebody’s discredit to somebody’s disgust to somebody’s dismay to somebody’s ears to somebody’s embarrassment to somebody’s eye(s) to somebody’s great delight to somebody’s horror to somebody’s memory