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#1 User is offline   H_KARLUK 

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Posted 2008-December-01, 16:20

Are there a single word in English explains "exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner" ?

Any good reason to be so ?
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Posted 2008-December-01, 16:33

Try "George Bush".
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Posted 2008-December-01, 16:52

No doubt you have your reasons for asking a question to which you already know the answer.
That's impossible. No one can give more than one hundred percent. By definition that is the most anyone can give.
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Posted 2008-December-01, 17:14

655321, on Dec 1 2008, 05:52 PM, said:

No doubt you have your reasons for asking a question to which you already know the answer.

oooooooo, BURN!
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Posted 2008-December-01, 17:37

kfay, on Dec 1 2008, 06:14 PM, said:

655321, on Dec 1 2008, 05:52 PM, said:

No doubt you have your reasons for asking a question to which you already know the answer.

oooooooo, BURN!

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Posted 2008-December-01, 17:53

Josh, it's brag.
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Posted 2008-December-01, 18:06

jdonn, on Dec 1 2008, 06:37 PM, said:

kfay, on Dec 1 2008, 06:14 PM, said:

655321, on Dec 1 2008, 05:52 PM, said:

No doubt you have your reasons for asking a question to which you already know the answer.

oooooooo, BURN!

Nooooo I'm blocked at work, what is it what is it.

Sorry, not very exciting - I just put the words in quotes into google and it came back with a bunch of stuff including some dictionary definitions for arrogant.
That's impossible. No one can give more than one hundred percent. By definition that is the most anyone can give.
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Posted 2008-December-01, 18:29

Okay , with "Any good reason to be so" question I meant are there ever any reasons to be "arrogant" ?

Well....to me not unless you want to make other people feel inferior. Arrogance is generally seen as a negative trait. And not conducive to good relationships among people. So it depends on your objectives. If you want to alienate people and put them down, then be arrogant.

If someone acts in an arrogant manner they may be trying to cover up insecurity. Perhaps they like to hear their own ideas, lol

ps. "smart aleck" is USA slang for someone who tries to act smart in an annoying way ? Who can blame a little bit jealous people ;-)
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Posted 2008-December-01, 19:13

Bragodocious? Egomaniacal?
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Posted 2008-December-01, 22:08

"Arrogant" led me to "proud" which led me to "pride" which seems to have two diametrically opposed meanings: "inordinate self-esteem" and "a reasonable or justifiable self-respect". (There are other, somewhat out of context, meanings). I suppose you can take your pick.

IME, most people equate "arrogant" with the first meaning of "pride", with as well an element of "arrogance is bad".
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Posted 2008-December-01, 22:48

"Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. [Proverbs 16:18]"
"Only by pride comes contention; but, with the well-advised is wisdom. [Proverbs 13:10]"
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Posted 2008-December-01, 23:21

malignant narcissism? that's two, ..the first is just to clarify the degree...
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Posted 2008-December-02, 06:21

Hubris. Overweaning pride. G(H)WB, Hitler and all the other nazis.
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Posted 2008-December-02, 08:17

H_KARLUK, on Dec 1 2008, 05:20 PM, said:

Are there a single word in English explains "exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner" ?

Foo?
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Posted 2008-December-02, 08:30

He's looking for an adjective. Try "foosome", "GWB-like", "hubrizzy", "braggish", "malignantly narcissistic".
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Posted 2008-December-02, 08:55

:P

The term 'World Class Expert' :rolleyes:
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Posted 2008-December-02, 10:48

shintaro, on Dec 2 2008, 09:55 AM, said:

:P

The term 'World Class Expert' :unsure:

Oxymoron.
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Posted 2008-December-02, 10:52

H_KARLUK, on Dec 1 2008, 05:20 PM, said:

Are there a single word in English explains "exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner" ?

Any good reason to be so ?



Main Entry: pompous

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: Characterized by an exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance

Synonyms: affected, aloof, arrogant, august, bloated, bombastic, bumptious, canting, condescending, consequential, disdainful, egotistic, fatuous, flaunting, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandiose seebombastic, haughty, highfaluting, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imposing, insolent, la-di-da, large, lofty, magisterial, officious, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, patronizing, pious, pontifical, portentous, preachy, pretentious, proud, puffy, pushy, rubescent, sanctimonious, self-important, sententious, smug, sniffy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stately, stilted, strutting, stuck-up, supercilious, swaggering, theatrical, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, vain, vainglorious
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Posted 2008-December-02, 12:08

H_KARLUK, on Dec 1 2008, 05:20 PM, said:

Are there a single word in English explains "exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner" ?

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Posted 2008-December-02, 15:10

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