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self-indulgence
noun as in indulgence by self
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Example Sentences
Robert Kennedy hated Johnson's grossness, his lies, his bullying of staff, his self-indulgence with whisky and food.
Yet this extreme display of self-mastery, assuming that is what it was, did not rule out other forms of self-indulgence.
None of this day-seizing, though, this YLOOing, should be interpreted as license for self-indulgence.
It has been a narcissistic self-indulgence—and may soon prove a very costly one as well.
Her many style tics—stacked one atop the other—read as code for narcissism, self-indulgence, and brittle self-absorption.
Whether he eat or drink, or whatsoever he do, the will of God and not self-indulgence must be his one aim.
They believed that victory, plunder, and self-indulgence were the fair compensations of their toils.
Speedily he relapsed again into slothfulness and self-indulgence.
The path of self-indulgence "leadeth to destruction," by a law which cannot be annulled or set aside.
They are the evils man brings upon himself by self-indulgence and the formation of bad habits.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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