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self-flattery
n. flattery of oneself; conceitedness.
Usage examples of "self-flattery".
He thought he growled the words as well as Mollen could have done, but that may have been the self-flattery of his imagination.
Corrigan said, permitting himself a small dash of self-flattery when he was told.
They displayed themselves to his memory as pointless affairs of self-flattery, affairs of taking rather than giving.
Holding onto the belief in the innate specialness and superiority of humanity was a form of self-flattery, an easy way out of the dilemmas posed by the new scientific universe.