Puffed up
Crossword Clue and Answers
Today we have 10 crossword solutions for Puffed up which appeared recently in The New York Times Crossword.
We have deemed Puffed up as a UNCOMMON crossword clue as we have not seen it regularly in many crossword publications.
The most recent answer we found for this clue is "SMUG".
Publications
- The New York Times Crossword - Thursday, 9 Jul 2020
Crossword Answers
4 letters
VAIN
Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
SMUG
Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; "a smug glow of self-congratulation"
5 letters
PROUD
Having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"
7 letters
SWELLED
Feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
POMPOUS
Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
SWOLLEN
Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"
SWOLLEN
8 letters
INFLATED
Enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "a hyperbolic style"
BILLOWED