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adj. - Characteristic of false pride.

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  • And I'm the last one who wants the process handed over to critics: we're swollen-headed enough as it is.
  • She had long ago sized up Anne-Marie as a silly, swollen-headed girl, just the kind to act about like this,
  • With Nasser, as predicted, more swollen-headed than before and conducting a war in Yemen and close to Aden?
  • That, "says this swollen-headed lunatic smugly," is his true purpose, for he and his kind can know no safety while I live.
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