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self-adulationnoun [mass noun]The quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s importance: a pathetic display of pompous self-adulation...- A recent book by a professor at the University of Grenoble has at last attacked this cycle of self-adulation.
- He insulated his activity and science from self-adulation, authoritarianism, and overstatement of its proper role.
- It compensates for its physical and spiritual inadequacies with national self-adulation and pompous symbolism.
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