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puffed up

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puffed up
adjective swollen-headed, proud, high and mighty (informal), bigheaded (informal), full of yourself, too big for your boots He was too puffed up with his own importance.
swollen-headed modest, humble, self-effacing


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That immodest one hath long made the petty people greatly puffed up,--he who taught no small error when he taught: 'I--am the truth.
Pittrino was puffed up with all the joy of a rehabilitation.
Tis easy to be a friend to the prosperous, for it pays; 'tis not hard to be a friend to the poor, for ye get puffed up by gratitude and have your picture printed standing in front of a tenement with a scuttle of coal and an orphan in each hand.
 
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