entitlement

Example Sentences

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You see his demands, from where I’m sitting, as entitlement because he fails to understand that your nest egg did not come easy.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

This cluster of malcontents appear to have an entitlement, possibly a load of bevvy, and certainly an animosity towards Steve Clarke running through their veins.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

On the spending side, they will likely need to revisit the structure of major entitlement programs.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

West, one of the grande dames of the movement, got her start at Seattle alt-weekly the Stranger and spent years excoriating fatphobia, online misogyny, and male entitlement for the ur-millennial-feminist site Jezebel.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

The character has to project entitlement, a whiff of corrosive self-regard.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove