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Adverb: self-importantly  ,self-im'por-tunt-lee
  1. In an arrogant manner
    "in the old days she had been harsh and stiff; afraid of her husband and yet self-importantly proud that she had a husband strong and fierce enough to make her afraid";
    - arrogantly, overweeningly