"self-serious" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "self- + serious",
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          "ref": "1995, Bill Garner, Seriously Now, Pelican Publishing",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1998, Douglas Hobbie, This Time Last Year: A Novel",
          "text": "Elizabeth had never recorded any period of her existence, failing to grasp the point of an exercise so self-absorbed and self-serious.",
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          "ref": "2005, Paul Harvey, Philip Goff., The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America",
          "text": "New Age is goofy, yet self-serious, with no sense of irony.",
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          "ref": "2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club",
          "text": "Relatable in neither its bizarrely specific plotting nor its broadly generic emotions, Dear Evan Hansen is so self-serious that it almost plays like self-parody, only without any “so bad it’s good” fun. We may all be striving for human connection right now, but we’re unlikely to find any here.",
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        "Taking oneself too seriously, pretentiously and humorlessly convinced of one's own seriousness."
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  "etymology_text": "self- + serious",
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    {
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      "form": "most self-serious",
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