aggrandizement
self-aggrandizing
He needs to show that he really does have the national interest at heart, rather than self-aggrandizement or self-enrichment.
Considering yourself a traveller traveler and everybody else as a tourist has long been a snobbish form of self-aggrandizement.
The Pyramids were built for the purpose of self-aggrandizement on the part of the pharaohs.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Important people and describing important people
actor
August
augustly
baron
be the cat's whiskersidiom
doyen
first among equalsidiom
FLOTUS
get over something/someone
get over yourself!idiom
guest of honour
heartbeat
mogul
moment
movers and shakers
MVP
nibs
notable
superiority
the grand old man of somethingidiom