self-indulgent

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Any leadership contender flirting with the idea of a challenge could look self-indulgent when the international situation is in such flux.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

In that instance, the public were given the chance to choose the overall winner, opting for the term describing "unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly or greedy" behaviour.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

This sentimental and self-indulgent social-dance affair to musical selections from Antonín Dvořák, Patsy Cline, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and Donna Summer goes nowhere, repeatedly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

But he also became self-indulgent and self-isolating, assisted by a poorly paid helper, Isabel Lyon, who took over most aspects of his life, an arrangement that was a prescription for disaster.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

Members of Abnegation don’t own many decorations, since they are viewed as self-indulgent, but what few things we were allowed, he has.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth