self-centeredness
Example Sentences
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But her observation that the adjective “selfy” was coined by a 17th-century Scottish minister and meant to deride self-centeredness comes across as unnecessarily avuncular information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
She has the self-centeredness of so many of those who mess with the natural order of things, and ignores some of the Creature’s own needs to use him for her benefit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
The sweetness is always still wrapped in the self-centeredness and the wittiness and the jerk face stuff that I say.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2023
It might come down to his self-centeredness wearing you out.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023
At Sophie Mol’s funeral and in the days before Estha was Returned, they saw her swollen eyes, and with the self-centeredness of children, held themselves wholly culpable for her grief.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
