How to Use narcissistic in a Sentence

narcissistic

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• The most fun scene to play was the scene that, to me, is sort of the nadir of my narcissistic descent.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
• What is life like on the other side of narcissistic abuse?
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
• Does the fashion choice seem a tad, well, narcissistic?
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2020
• She’s always been the best of our family; the kindest soul in a sea of brash Bremangs, the nice one in a pile of narcissistic Newmans.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 23 Oct. 2022
• What if things had become so selfish and narcissistic in America that even the mob couldn’t take it?
  — New York Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• To be fair, the fear of being singled out of billions of users may be more narcissistic than rational.
  — Theo Miller, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Many of them have turned to autofiction, a genre which is often criticized as narcissistic—a way of shrinking the world to fit into the four walls of the writer’s room.
  — Adam Kirsch, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• Both Rick and Morty have behaved in evil or narcissistic ways throughout the run of the show, but now viewers have gotten to see Summer and Beth wreak some havoc as well.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• Strange was once a gifted, narcissistic neurosurgeon who, after losing the use of his hands, looked for a cure in the mythic Himalayas.
  — Marc Bernardin, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
• And most times these ways are narcissistic, self-involved, and actually detrimental to the wider cause.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 June 2021
• My husband is a child of divorce and has a mother with a long history of narcissistic behaviors.
  — Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
• By comparing Apollo to a dog, and rendering the rape of Daphne as the brutal act of an egotistical, narcissistic man, Ovid took risks.
  — The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• A lot of our problems now revolve around a single person and the sort of narcissistic populism that accompanies that.
  — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
• The most narcissistic politician of our lifetimes was never going to just walk away gracefully.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2022
• Are these people making narcissistic use of the lost twin, or do their bodies really remember and mourn?
  — Jean Garnett, The New Yorker, 10 July 2023
• Play to their narcissistic tendencies-stroke their ego; 3.
  — Patricia Fersch, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Yet nothing could be more narcissistic, in Heti’s telling, than such moral preening, and Sheila instinctively resists it.
  — Adam Kirsch, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• The original meta-comedy, The Larry Sanders Show details the narcissistic machinations of the eponymous character behind the scenes of his fake talk show.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2023
• Castro is portrayed as a narcissistic overlord who cares for nothing but power.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
• Has this guy really never met anyone who wasn’t a narcissistic Speedo model?
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2022
• For all these achievements, as time went on, Netanyahu became more narcissistic, arrogant, and paranoid.
  — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2021
• Fake commercial may end with disclaimer gag, which may descend into vain Chuck Lorre-esque rant by narcissistic creator.
  — James Mercadante, EW.com, 18 June 2024
• What kind of narcissistic know-it-all arrogant little person would take that attitude?
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• In fact, narcissistic traits like these are actually pretty common for kids to exhibit, says Macadaan.
  — Maressa Brown, Parents, 3 Oct. 2023
• Therefore, there can be no narcissistic number consisting of more than 60 digits.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2023
• Social media websites such as Facebook, TikTok and Instagram can feel like a narcissistic field day.
  — Fortune Well, 3 Mar. 2023
• Some experts refer to those effects as narcissistic abuse syndrome.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 1 May 2023
• But Clueless is still really kind of sweet and cuddly, and our main character, who is a little narcissistic at the beginning, is still incredibly sweet.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2024
• Academics have found that narcissistic leaders often take big risks, demand loyalty, and have flimsy ethics.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 23 May 2024
• For folks who are actually dealing with someone with NPD—or with narcissistic personality traits—there may be a lot of truth to that narrative.
  — Samantha Vincenty, SELF, 7 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024