narcissist

as in egotist
a person who is overly concerned with his or her own desires, needs, or interests with the rise of TV reality shows, attention-craving narcissists had a public forum for their self-infatuation

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Recent Examples of narcissist Over the course of his long political career, Cuomo has been accused of being stubborn, a bully, a womanizer and a narcissist. Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2025 The garden-variety narcissist needs to be the tallest tree in the forest. Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025 But because it's thrown around loosely on social media, there's a false idea that narcissists are everywhere. Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 28 Feb. 2025 Relationship challenges: People-pleasers are often targets for manipulative individuals in personal and professional settings, such as narcissists, psychopaths and sociopaths, who will prey on the kindness and need to please from the people-pleaser. David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for narcissist
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Noun
  • At times, egoists can approach absurdity and drag their countries into outright disaster.
    Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
  • McCarthy’s difficulties highlighted the power of hard-right extremists and social-media egoists among the fragile Republican majority in the House.
    Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • Dig in: The meal is $75 and includes dishes like jerk chicken with rice and peas and coconut collard greens, cow heel soup and crawfish hushpuppies.
    Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The Lion’s Tail is a transitional drink that tastes like if a Jamaican jerk chicken and a Whiskey Sour couldn’t keep their hands off each other.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Caro Stowell of Thomasville was dressed up like a clown.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The final moments of the trailer revealed a terrifying figure hiding deep in the woods, one that looked overwhelmingly like a female clown.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Narcissist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narcissist. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.

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