self-centered

Example Sentences

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All of his successes have attracted critics worried he has become too powerful, too reckless, too self-centered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

Obviously, boomers are not all self-centered; they may require more help as they age.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

The fact that they are being paid to do this, with all the trappings of every parents-under-stress reality show, only adds to the air of self-centered exploitation.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 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

And yet, while she was singing with pleasure and dying with laughter over her own inventions, Aureliano was becoming more and more absorbed and silent, for his passion was self-centered and burning.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez