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grandiose adjective affected, boastful, bombastic, enormous, exorbitant, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, fustian, grandiloquent, high-sounding, huge, immense, inflated, lofty, magniloquent, mighty, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, pompous, pretentious, showy, stupendous, theatrical, tumid, turgid, vainglorious See also: elaborate, fustian, inflated, orgulous, orotund, pretentious How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Even more grandiosely, I could pose the question (but very hesitantly, almost taking it back as I ask it), what purpose might this strange attraction play? These traits include being superficial, acting grandiosely, lying frequently, showing no remorse, lacking empathy, refusing to accept responsibility for misdeeds, behaving impulsively, and having committed many crimes. I could use my cognitive techniques to recognize when I was grandiosely "catastrophizing"--for example, seeing one obstacle as a sign that everything else in my life was going to collapse. |
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