To help my coworker get a promotion, I used the art of aggrandizement.
"The emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family."http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aggrandizement
the sign by the highway collapsed due to the aggrandizement of the message it carried.
The emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
The aggrandizement of the president of this developing country posed a lot of questions when the rest of the people are starving.
An aggrandizement is an act of aggrandizing, of making grand, exalting, or increasing in power, rank, honour or wealth.
Altruism is centered in concern for doing for others, whereas self- aggrandizement is centered on selfishness.
Conservatism.
All 33 alternatives are self aggrandizement
Inflation, enlargement, expansion.
John D. Rockefeller worked to aggrandize his empire by purchasing oil wells, refineries, and pipelines.
exaggerate, overstate, puff up, build up, magnify
Physical fitness, competition and self aggrandizement, and as ceremonies honouring the gods.