swollen-headed

If it had not been for all those swollen-headed Party bigwigs.

Talking to your elders like that, you swollen-headed little upstart!

His bandage gave him a strange, swollen-headed appearance.

He learns to accept praise without getting swollen-headed and is ready to be corrected if he has done wrong.

Don't get upset by criticism†and don't get swollen-headed from praise†and keep your temper on a racecourse, all of the time.

If they refused, he said, they would prove that they were common traitors, and irresponsible swollen-headed rabble.

Allen, wrote in a letter home: "Well, I burst and said a good deal about swollen-headed, gutless, uneducated miners."

Rather swollen-headed

It does not take a modern-day feminist sensibility to perceive Frank ("the big, swollen-headed stiff") as an insufferable sexist.

At the shooting match, Annie finds out that Frank is the "big swollen-headed stiff" from the Wild West Show.

But the biggest disappointment is Steven Mellor, portraying one of those swollen-headed poltroons who automatically deflate in a crunch.

Bassanago bulbiceps (Swollen-headed conger eel)

As I have said before, when writing about human behaviour, we are no more than swollen-headed animals and the sooner we accept this fact the safer we will be.

The swollen-headed conger eel, Bassanago bulbiceps, is a conger of the family Congridae, found on continental slopes around southern Australia and New Zealand.

I detest Federico Jiménez Losantos, who confuses 'Guernica' with Pelé the footballer, and talks about it being 'signed up'to turn the Reina Sofía into a swollen-headed museum presided over by a sinister fetish.

Chapter 29 A Letter from Home "dear katherine,--Living among grand friends as you are doing now, I don't suppose you will care to hear any of our news; but as I always thought you were a sensible girl, perhaps you are a trifle less swollen-headed than I suppose.