How to Use self-absorbed in a Sentence

self-absorbed

adjective

• On the dark side, be wary of coming across as selfish and self-absorbed when your needs aren't met.
  — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
• To that end, yes, honeymoon phases are gushy (and self-absorbed).
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
• Smart played Winslet’s mother, Helen, who is both all-seeing and self-absorbed.
  — J Wortham, New York Times, 12 May 2024
• My sibling is loving, kind and generous — as well as self-absorbed.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• Those today with the best levels of executive presence are not self-absorbed.
  — Adrian Gostick, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• However, these terms are often used with a note of derision, applied to someone who is self-absorbed.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• His decision marks the end of a stunning transformation for Loki, from selfish and self-absorbed to someone willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the universe.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
• Spiteful, judgmental, and self-absorbed, Livia Soprano (Nancy Marchand) makes life hell for her son to the point of requiring years of psychotherapy.
  — and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 25 June 2024
• If someone calls you self-absorbed, consider whether that person has a point or is projecting their own insecurities.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• People throw around the term loosely to describe those who are self-absorbed, entitled and manipulative – from overbearing parents to destructive exes.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• Double-dealing, self-absorbed and relentlessly ambitious, the most prominent of them were usually appalling.
  — Catherine Ostler, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
• Howie’s mental meanderings are maniacally self-absorbed in a way Castro’s narrator worries is true of his own roiling, recursive thoughts.
  — Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• Unbeknownst to juror Gladden, his oddball cohorts and other courtroom figures for the (fake) trial are all paid performers — including James Marsden, who plays a self-absorbed, caricatured version of himself.
  — James Mercadante, EW.com, 30 May 2024
• In short order and in this bucolic setting, Leon proves to be an irritable jerk: self-absorbed, painfully insecure, perpetually annoyed, snobbish, and at times reflexively cruel.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 14 July 2023

Last Updated: 12 Feb 2025