self-centered
Example Sentences
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Of course, you probably don’t mean all boomers are self-centered.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025
Much like any young teen, Dawn was a bit impulsive and self-centered and seemingly insensitive to Buffy’s plight as a chosen savior.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 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
By contrast, people who talk about "narcissism" today are usually describing people who act in deliberately cruel and self-centered ways, which is completely separate from more innocuous narcissistic behavior.
From Salon • May 9, 2024
For that matter, shallow and self-centered was how brand- new pretties were supposed to be.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
