aggrandizers
Those who enlarge
Aggrandizers are people who seek to increase power, wealth, or status—usually their own.
The word carries a critical edge, suggesting self-promotion or empire-building at others' expense: The company fell to aggrandizers who cared more about their bonuses than the workers.
Political aggrandizers expand their influence through any means available.
Things that gather over time
- hoardersExcessive keepers of things
- profiteersThose gaining from hardship
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
- magnatesWealthy, powerful industrialists
plutocrats · robber-barons · acquisitive · materialistic · gold-diggers · empire-building · monopolists
Those who decorate further
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
- distortionTwisting from original state
fabrication · myth-making · puffery · dramatization · overemphasis · overselling · sensationalists · propagandists
Superior influence over others
- controlAuthority to direct
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
- hegemonyDominant group's control
supremacy · territorial · expansionist · imperialist · autocrats · despots · tyrants · oligarchs
Excessive self-praise
- braggingExcessive self-praise
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
- self-glorificationPraising oneself excessively
- showboatingOstentatious self-display
narcissism · vanity · grandstanding · posturing · preening · self-praise · name-dropping · humble-bragging
accumulators
Things that gather over time
- hoardersExcessive keepers of things
- profiteersThose gaining from hardship
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
magnates · plutocrats · robber-barons · acquisitive · materialistic · gold-diggers · empire-building · monopolists
embellishers
Those who decorate further
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
distortion · fabrication · myth-making · puffery · dramatization · overemphasis · overselling · sensationalists · propagandists · promoters
dominance
Superior influence over others
- controlAuthority to direct
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
hegemony · supremacy · territorial · expansionist · imperialist · autocrats · despots · tyrants · oligarchs · warlords
boasting
Excessive self-praise
- braggingExcessive self-praise
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
- self-glorificationPraising oneself excessively
showboating · narcissism · vanity · grandstanding · posturing · preening · self-praise · name-dropping · humble-bragging · attention-seeking
aggrandizersminimizers
Things that lessen
shrinking violets · understaters · downplayers · wallflowers
aggrandizersdiminishers
Things that lessen magnitude
reducers · belittlers · disparagers · detractors · deprecators