flatter oneself 的定义
- Be gratified vainly by one's own achievement; exaggerate one's good points. For example, He flattered himself that his presentation at the sales conference was a success, or She flattered herself that she was by far the best skater at the rink. This usage is often put negatively, as in Don't flatter yourself—we haven't won the contract yet. [Late 1500s]
flatter oneself 近义词
等同于 plume
等同于 pride
等同于 boast
flatter oneself 的近义词 41 个
- advertise
- aggrandize
- blow
- bluster
- bully
- cock-a-doodle-doo
- con
- crow
- exaggerate
- exult
- fake
- flaunt
- flourish
- gasconade
- gloat
- glory
- grandstand
- jive
- prate
- preen
- puff
- shoot
- shovel
- showboat
- shuck
- sling
- strut
- swagger
- triumph
- vapor
- attract attention
- blow one's own horn
- blow smoke
- congratulate oneself
- give a good account of oneself
- hug oneself
- lay on thick
- psych
- show off
- sound off
- talk big
flatter oneself 的反义词 5 个
等同于 gasconade
更多flatter oneself例句
- The speaker conjures up centuries of collective sagacity, aligning oneself with an eternal, inarguable good.
- Perhaps there is something too painful about throwing oneself too deep into what went wrong.
- When one plays life that way, one in a way awakes creative vital energies in oneself that otherwise are not available.
- How many details are needed, after all, before one can say to oneself, “This is what I have lost?”
- And so the reaction seems to be to corral oneself off from disagreement.
- She seemed to imply that I was a modest soldier, and if there is a way to flatter a man it is to call him modest.
- The habit of refreshing oneself with a pipe on some elevated spot which commands a fine view, is common to both sexes.
- He urged, that it would flatter the peculiarities of her character, and might conciliate her good offices for his liberty.
- To suddenly discover oneself proficient where failure had been feared increases self esteem and adds to the sum of happiness.
- He afterwards enlarged his model and adopted a flatter pattern, and arrived at the greatest perfection about 1700.