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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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