self-importantly
In puffed-up manner
Self-importantly describes doing something with an inflated sense of one's own significance.
Someone who speaks self-importantly acts as though their words carry special weight or authority: He cleared his throat self-importantly before addressing the room.
The manner suggests pompousness—taking oneself more seriously than the situation warrants.
With disdainful superiority
- superciliouslyActing superior to others
- imperiouslyIn overbearing manner
- overbearinglyIn an oppressively forceful way
- disdainfullyWith arrogant dismissal
contemptuously · condescendingly · patronizingly · lordly · high-handedly · snobbishly · snootily · loftily
Without achieving purpose
- narcissisticallyWith vain self-absorption
- egotisticallyWith inflated self-regard
- boastfullyWith arrogant self-promotion
- immodestlyWith undue pride
swaggeringly · preening · smugly · pridefully · cockily · showboating · grandiosely
With uncritical self-approval
- sanctimoniouslyWith hypocritical moral superiority
- holier-than-thouSmugly moralistic toward others
- smuglyWith excessive self-satisfaction
- knowinglyWith deliberate awareness
priggishly · smugness · unctuously · superciliously · pleased · contentedly · triumphantly · primly
In pretentiously magnificent fashion
- bombasticallyIn pretentiously inflated style
- pretentiouslyWith exaggerated importance
- ostentatiouslyIn a showy manner
- pontificallyIn pompously authoritative manner
grandiloquently · highfalutin · theatrically · floridly · rhetorically · ceremoniously · stuffily · stiltedly
haughtily
With disdainful superiority
- superciliouslyActing superior to others
- imperiouslyIn overbearing manner
- overbearinglyIn an oppressively forceful way
disdainfully · contemptuously · condescendingly · patronizingly · lordly · high-handedly · snobbishly · snootily · loftily · dismissively
vainly
Without achieving purpose
- narcissisticallyWith vain self-absorption
- egotisticallyWith inflated self-regard
- boastfullyWith arrogant self-promotion
immodestly · swaggeringly · preening · smugly · pridefully · cockily · showboating · grandiosely
complacently
With uncritical self-approval
- sanctimoniouslyWith hypocritical moral superiority
- holier-than-thouSmugly moralistic toward others
- smuglyWith excessive self-satisfaction
knowingly · priggishly · smugness · unctuously · superciliously · pleased · contentedly · triumphantly · primly · moralistically
grandiosely
In pretentiously magnificent fashion
- bombasticallyIn pretentiously inflated style
- pretentiouslyWith exaggerated importance
- ostentatiouslyIn a showy manner
pontifically · grandiloquently · highfalutin · theatrically · floridly · rhetorically · ceremoniously · stuffily · stiltedly · affectedly
- arrogant adverbshaughtily, smugly, pompously, condescendingly, disdainfully
self-importantlyhumbly
Without pride or arrogance
modestly · unassumingly · self-effacingly · unpretentiously · self-deprecatingly
self-importantlytimidly
In fearful, hesitant fashion
shyly · submissively · quietly · reservedly · reticently
self, important, selfish, importance, unimportant, selfishness, self-important, importantly, unimportance