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Adjective
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Liberals without children fear they are seen as selfish careerists or libertines.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025 -
Dropping this much weight in such a short amount of time is both dangerous and, according to his teammates, selfish.—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The hotel guests are sometimes too self-absorbed to notice, but this season amps up the terrors lurking around every corner in the week leading to the mysterious death.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2025
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This new gaggle of mostly privileged Americans remain as flawed and self-absorbed as ever, too.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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There’s plenty such wordplay in The Safe House, to the point that the movie can seem like a caricature of overeducated, perpetually growling Parisians shouting for social change, but too self-centered and comfortable in their bourgeois lifestyles to do anything drastic about it.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Feb. 2025
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Sitting on the sidelines and labeling someone else as self-centered is easy.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Not just for this reason, but also due to the fact she’s been so self-involved the past year.—
Erin Clack,
People.com,
2 Feb. 2025
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A little self-involved, but the check clears either way.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
16 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Sagittarius November 22 – December 21 Be wary of becoming self-obsessed or overly fascinated with your interests.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Apr. 2024
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Millennials and Gen Zers (Louis himself is a Millennial) are sometimes derided for being self-obsessed.—
Tope Folarin,
The Atlantic,
29 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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Here's Your Zodiac Love Compatibility, Based on Your Sign Sagittarius: Rachel Chu from Crazy Rich Asians To maintain her relationship, Rachel takes on a fight with her boyfriend’s domineering mother Eleanor.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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He’s had something of a habit of playing domineering fathers, doing so on Ugly Betty (2006–2007) and as Charles Widmore on Lost (2006–2010).—
Sezin Devi Koehler,
EW.com,
8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The reputation that Rickey Henderson engendered over his decades in the game was of a proud and often boastful player.—
Sam Blum,
The Athletic,
22 Dec. 2024
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Image On eve of inaugural, Trump vowed to end ‘American decline’ Donald Trump held a boastful, campaign-style rally at an arena in downtown Washington on the eve of his second inauguration.—
Jonathan Wolfe,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The sociopolitical implications of his story—desperate poverty, harassment by the police, along with exploitation by the boxing business and its high-handed authorities—are balanced by his earnest self-analyses and the detailing of his home life.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2024
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Georgian society, however, has shown increasing signs of fatigue with the former government’s high-handed policies.—
Thomas de Waal,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Dec. 2012
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“Self-engrossed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-engrossed. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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