self-important

Modifies a noun

• man: Occasionally, at question time, I crossed swords with him on minor points, in the way that self-important young men do.
• critic: It is also nice to note that unlike some so serious and self-important critics, Dylan was no musical snob.
• impresario: So to look at this question of whether a curator is a " creative collaborator or a self-important impresario?
• idiot: Clarkson was a pompous self-important idiot and he seems to have set the tone for his successors.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: This is a rather self-important church in the largest of the villages surrounding Ampton Water.
• too: The management team right up to the M.D. are far too self-important to reply to a customer.
• very: Some people can be very self-important and very puffed-up.
• somewhat: You just can't read Whitaker and not walk away realizing that this guy is somewhat self-important.
• so: Every other band on the radio acted so self-important.

Used with adjective complement

feel: Soon it may even feel self-important enough to display its scores outside the porters ' lodge.