How to Use self-important in a Sentence

self-important

adjective
  • The self-important Brackman often was the butt of his colleagues’ jokes.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2024
  • This isn’t just one self-important critic’s opinion — Berry herself has talked about it.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Self-righteous and self-important, priggish and nagging.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • This self-important aging fart, going on and on about himself, his thoughts, feelings, emotions.
    — Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
  • The people are bland, gossipy and self-important while my friends and family are almost a thousand miles away.
    — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The series is sincere but not self-important, slightly silly but not embarrassed about it.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Matt and his direct reports quickly reveal themselves to be spineless, self-important, thin-skinned, and out of touch.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • What’s Jimmy Buffett got that some self-important musical stars seem to lack?
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The former excels at playing the earthy, sly, seductive trickster, the latter, the pompous, self-important rich boy.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
  • The self-important justifications of these tourists will leave you feeling even more frustrated with the human race.
    — Longreads, 14 July 2023
  • The fact is that bringing together a host of successful but self-important luminaries to forecast the future is a mug’s game.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Not to throw shade, but Aries can be self-important, similarly to how Collins deals with his relationship to others.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Balmy does prove to be slightly sinister and fully absurd, in the way of self-important cult leaders everywhere, and Le Moulin even more so.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • And women who foreground themselves in any capacity are often perceived to be self-important drama queens, or narcissists.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The show has taken on Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, politicians of every stripe and self-important celebrities.
    — Josie Howell | , al, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Putting on a show that’s self-important at worst, familiar and forced at best, this frustrating fever dream (a generous term) offers only a handful of surprises to the average horror fan.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Looking elegant as ever, Huppert appears with script in hand, half-reading, half-reciting a long, self-important monologue, written by Rozek.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Feb. 2026
  • What about Miami would attract a phony, conniving, self-important, billionaire pedophile?
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 June 2024
  • It was being painted as an out-of-touch, arcane, and self-important social institution from a bygone era, and was doing very little to dispel that characterization.
    — David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • But if education in the liberal arts actually achieves these goals, how come many humanities professors are self-important, status-conscious jerks?
    — WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023
  • There has always been the possibility in moving-picture narratives that our feeling ignored, downtrodden, and unknown in life can be relieved by gaudy monsters who trash the self-important world.
    — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The effort was pointless and self-important and never once determined the Legislature could promote happiness by lowering the cost of living and staying out of people’s lives.
    — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Even so, who better than Tina Fey to play a self-important, slightly bullying know-it-all who conceals her questionable competence behind a thin layer of condescension?
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Trailer spoofs In place of self-important promotion, Oldenburg every year releases a festival trailer spoofing a major blockbuster or cult movie.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • Only this time the interns are boring Gen Z stereotypes (obsessed with TikTok, too sensitive, too emotional, too self-important).
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The technology world can be, to its detriment, too analytical, sort of arrogant, and self-important, and those characteristics are anti-empathy.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The result is Shin Godzilla, a bone-dry satire of government impotence and self-important bureaucrats that’s the most realistic installment in the series since the original.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Jeffrey Tambor Known for playing the pompous, self-important mayor of Whoville, Jeffery Tambor also has an esteemed career across television and film.
    — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Just as in Into the Spider-Verse, these opening monologues satirize the self-important and repetitive nature of superhero introductions.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
  • His cruel caricature of the technocratic, self-important, and sometimes petty bureaucratic culture of the commission is largely accurate.
    — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019

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