aggrandizement

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Gist may be true, but the details were fuzzed for a better story/self aggrandizement.

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the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something; "the aggrandizement of the king"; "his elevation to cardinal"

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noun

the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something; "the aggrandizement of the king"; "his elevation to cardinal"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for aggrandizement.

noun

the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something; "the aggrandizement of the king"; "his elevation to cardinal"

Example sentences

Gist may be true, but the details were fuzzed for a better story/self aggrandizement.

My goal is not self aggrandizement, it's just to help do my part in making things better for us all.

I would love to hear a real solution instead of self aggrandizement and vague ideas.

But the point of my comment had nothing to do with RMS, it had to do with Dave's level of self-aggrandizement.

I think it's baseless self-aggrandizement to assert that tech people are any more ethical than bankers.

It is a common accusation that Assange himself created wikileaks as a tool for self-aggrandizement.

In middle school, I had this hyper-competitive desire to be cool, and it resulted in a fair bit of self-aggrandizement that didn't exactly make me cool.

[0]This is similar to the occasional self-aggrandizement coming from white sports journalists covering black athletes, like the "I pay your salary so you'd better play hard every game!