self-partiality

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-partiality
Noun
  • There’s no complacency there in terms of what her improvement and potential can be.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Perhaps most importantly, market complacency could be shattered overnight, quite literally.
    Joel Shulman, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Brad Keselowski has fired back at NASCAR on X by quoting a fan's post, suggesting favoritism in flag rulings.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
  • And a lot of it was focused on — or at least the public attention was often drawn to — corruption and favoritism within these assessors' offices.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Although technology is a ubiquitous part of this production, the piece has practically nothing to say about it, other than acknowledging its mere existence — technology is related to vanity, and a front-facing selfie camera is like a mirror.
    Christian Lewis, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
  • That has real implications for brand deals and CPM negotiations — but risks creating a new layer of noise and vanity metrics in the creator economy.
    Ian Shepherd, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The national community could be knit together without indulging the chauvinism of belligerence.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
  • American chauvinism and solipsism leads them to believe every country would love to join America.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • This would reduce patronage and cronyism, which have plagued our city for decades.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Wu was asked about Flaherty’s quarter-million dollar payout through a severance agreement, and purported cronyism revealed by Commission records that show the agency’s Executive Director Henry Vitale had two sister-in-laws and a nephew on the payroll last year.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Known for his throwback style, Jones Jr. was an unapologetic supporter of political nepotism and made no bones about helping friends and family get state jobs.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Junior kneels in front of a portrait of Frank Sr. in tears in what looks like a room of weeping nepotism hires.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • China has been doubling down on policies to strengthen its self-sufficiency since the first trade war in 2018.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Few economic philosophies have shaped America’s prosperity as profoundly as Henry Clay’s American System — a blueprint for national strength and self-sufficiency.
    Tim Overton, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Self-partiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-partiality. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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