Sample sentences for MEGALOMANIA

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Definition

a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur (belief that you are much more important than you are)

She described him as an authoritarian megalomaniac.

'He had fits of madness and megalomania upon the dais, as the scribes, their heads bent in terror, pretended not to hear.'
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
The only people who could stop it —three fashionably dressed teenaged demigods and a megalomaniac goat.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
And in believing, he couldn't see how outrageously megalomaniacal his words sounded to others.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Are you a complete megalomaniac?
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
"Ah, baron, baron," said Albert, "you are not listening—what barbarism in a megalomaniac like you!"
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
That sounds megalomaniacal.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
She could not see that in trying to curb what she regarded as megalomania she was doing anything wicked.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
We have a megalomaniac problem.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
It is not a house of God, but the cell of a megalomaniac.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
But they might well decide he was insane and needed treatment for his megalomania.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
It can result in megalomania, as I call it.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
"And if you look in the dictionary under 'delusional megalomaniac,' you'll see your picture."
James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
One way you feed his megalomania, the other you baulk it.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
A sensitive, susceptible, exaggerative, earnest man: a megalomaniac, who would be lost without a sense of humor.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
Even a megalomaniacal billionaire, determined to prevent the dehydration of his pride, grows weary of pouring away money with the tap open wide.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
This runaway megalomania marked him as a blood member of the fraternity of generals.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
I liked him immensely, his sullenness, his corpselike color, except when he was lodged in a good mood, when he became overbearing and megalomaniacal.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
He might have said something, some offering of impotent outrage, if this had been the work of the Taliban, or al-Qaeda, or some megalomaniacal Mujahideen commander.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed

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