as in egotistical
overly concerned with one's own desires, needs, or interests
a selfish desire to succeed at the expense of others
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What a selfish request and to keep pestering it for years is so rude.
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Erin Clack, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
This is a time to be a little selfish and focus on your immediate interests.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Oct. 2024
One is an overachieving, selfish, wanna-be prom queen and the other a naive preacher’s daughter.
—Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
As many critics of Silicon Valley see it, today’s startup founders and venture capitalists are, like the nouveaux riches of previous eras, using their wealth for selfish aims.
—Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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Erin Clack, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
This is a time to be a little selfish and focus on your immediate interests.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Oct. 2024
One is an overachieving, selfish, wanna-be prom queen and the other a naive preacher’s daughter.
—Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
As many critics of Silicon Valley see it, today’s startup founders and venture capitalists are, like the nouveaux riches of previous eras, using their wealth for selfish aims.
—Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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Pharrell Williams’s egotistical fantasy Talent is not always original.Armond White, National Review, 11 Oct. 2024
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One scene portrays a tense argument among members of the group when egotistical then-lead singer David Ruffin (played by Leon Robinson) insists that the group’s audiences are attending their shows to see him.Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2024
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Some of the men have been described as egocentric, aggressive, and routinely unfaithful.Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
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Feel how different these approaches are from the warmongering produced by egocentric thinking.Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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Their narcissistic and pathological tendencies enable them to manipulate and harm others without remorse, leaving psychological harm in their wake.Jason Walker, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Several people who spoke to Rolling Stone described Combs as a serial predator who used his fame, fortune, industry status, and reputation as a fun-loving party host to hide a volatile temper and disturbing, narcissistic behavior for decades.Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2024
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So, how do good leaders operate with confidence without coming across as arrogant or self-centered?Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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To be clear, sperm donation is, obviously, not an inherently evil or self-centered act.Mark Travers, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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Zoey Johnson Zoey, the fashion-forward and occasionally self-absorbed eldest Johnson child.Okla Jones, Essence, 24 Sep. 2024
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But the message is dark, self-absorbed and lacks empathy.Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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The old tourist is essentially the boorish figure from the headlines—solipsistic, oriented toward the self, someone who superimposes their fantasies onto a place and then is outraged when their expectations aren’t met.Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 30 June 2024
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Jude’s cynical social perceptions and teasing sympathy toward strivers like Angela and her common-man subjects surpass the efforts of all his clueless filmmaking contemporaries, such as Wes Anderson, who packs whimsy into his Roald Dahl anthology only to create solipsistic distraction.Armond White, National Review, 22 Mar. 2024
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Don’t be too proud to accept help or too self-involved to provide it in return.Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 30 July 2024
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And Janine is causing chaos, being self-involved, but under the guise of helping the school.Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
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The potential for self-serving bias and belief bias are evident.Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
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For officials in China and Russia, de facto adversaries of the United States, the Iraq War is an easy precedent to put forward to shoot down Washington’s talking points, no matter how self-serving and cynical that may be.Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
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“Selfish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selfish. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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