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megalomaniac

[ meg-uh-loh-mey-nee-ak ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Also meg·a·lo·ma·ni·a·cal [] meg·a·lo·man·ic [] of, relating to, or suggesting megalomania or a person with it.

First recorded in 1885–90; megalo- + maniac

A dozen megalomaniacs have vendettas against Bond at this point.

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Dear Evan Hansen, so exquisitely engineered to give us all the feels, is really a story about a megalomaniac in training.

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Errichetti was a foul-mouthed megalomaniac and “a crook at heart,” Greene wrote.

In the movie, T.E. Lawrence becomes a megalomaniac, a killer, and finally a mystery even to himself.

Recognizing that Messier was simply a corporate charlatan, Bronfman stepped up and led the charge to remove the megalomaniac.

Leading the megalomaniac set in the NFL is Dallas Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones.

Palin is the rare female politician who is as much a megalomaniac as her male peers.

He knew that megalomaniac Controllers were either captured or mobbed, and he had no wish to experience either.

Before the war he liked to imitate the English, and posed as a German megalomaniac.

Here was one Controller who neither looked nor acted like a megalomaniac.

Both worlds are egocentric, megalomaniac, filled to the full with unbridled human will and desire.

It is only in the study of the gloomily megalomaniac historian that aggressive war becomes a large and glorious thing.

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