self-centered
Example Sentences
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Of course, you probably don’t mean all boomers are self-centered.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025
“Ellie has a more self-centered point of view. Ellie’s world is her and Joel and God help anybody who gets in the middle of it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025
But plenty of us have self-centered people in our lives whom we do not want to cut off or gray rock—and for that, we might need to get off Reddit and talk to a therapist.
From Slate • Aug. 5, 2024
When most people picture a narcissist, we think of self-centered, awful people who lack empathy.
From Salon • May 9, 2024
For that matter, shallow and self-centered was how brand- new pretties were supposed to be.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
