bigheadedness

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big head

1. Informal Conceit; egotism.

2. also big·head (bĭg′hĕd′) Any of various diseases of animals, especially rams, characterized by swelling of the head, face, or neck.

big′head′ed adj.

big′head′ed·ness n.

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bigheadedness

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Informal. An exaggerated belief in one's own importance:

egoism, egotism, self-importance.

Informal: bighead, swelled head.

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Two of the portraits at the Pompidou, those of Pierre Matisse (Dubuffet's New York dealer) and Michel Tapie (the art critic), render the model's head as a giant pancake, though that is no indication of either man's bigheadedness. Dubuffet liked, as he put it, to "inscribe faces which are in reality gaunt and angular inside a roughly circular shape, the form of a gourd or a tart." This pancaking of the model's head could be comical or mystifying, and in the case of Michel Tapie soleil it is decidedly the latter.

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Broadcaster Sandi Toksvig "It is this sort of bigheadedness and contempt for public money that gets MPs a bad name."

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A s to that, Houllier's most caustic remark concerned the player's perceived bigheadedness.