egocentric
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Veronika's tool use is directed at her own body, which is known as egocentric tool use.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
"He has pretty strong political ambitions for a second term, and is pretty politically egocentric, as all leaders are at his level."
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2025
As decades of animated Disney movies have taught us, antagonists generally get the best musical numbers, with the freedom to be as egocentric and bombastic as, well, the Joker of the 2019 movie.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024
In his 1941 book, The Mask of Sanity, the influential US psychiatrist Hervey Cleckley set out the personality profile of a psychopath: a superficially charming but egocentric and untrustworthy person who conceals an antisocial core.
From Scientific American • Jul. 24, 2023
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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