self-serious
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Taking oneself too seriously, pretentiously and humorlessly convinced of one's own…
Taking oneself too seriously, pretentiously and humorlessly convinced of one's own seriousness.
- This is not to say that there is a self-serious bone in Bill's body. He's a kid on a trike with a slingshot and a peashooter -- always has been, always will be.
- Elizabeth had never recorded any period of her existence, failing to grasp the point of an exercise so self-absorbed and self-serious.
- New Age is goofy, yet self-serious, with no sense of irony.
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