How to Use self-absorbed in a Sentence
self-absorbed
adjective
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On the dark side, be wary of coming across as selfish and self-absorbed when your needs aren't met.
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Valerie Mesa,
Peoplemag,
11 June 2024
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To that end, yes, honeymoon phases are gushy (and self-absorbed).
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Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
19 June 2024
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Smart played Winslet’s mother, Helen, who is both all-seeing and self-absorbed.
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J Wortham,
New York Times,
12 May 2024
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My sibling is loving, kind and generous — as well as self-absorbed.
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Haben Kelati,
Washington Post,
10 May 2023
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Those today with the best levels of executive presence are not self-absorbed.
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Adrian Gostick,
Forbes,
18 Apr. 2023
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However, these terms are often used with a note of derision, applied to someone who is self-absorbed.
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Frances Vinall,
Washington Post,
2 June 2023
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His decision marks the end of a stunning transformation for Loki, from selfish and self-absorbed to someone willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the universe.
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Jp Mangalindan,
Peoplemag,
16 Apr. 2024
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Spiteful, judgmental, and self-absorbed, Livia Soprano (Nancy Marchand) makes life hell for her son to the point of requiring years of psychotherapy.
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and Kevin Jacobsen,
EW.com,
25 June 2024
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If someone calls you self-absorbed, consider whether that person has a point or is projecting their own insecurities.
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David Oliver,
USA TODAY,
8 Mar. 2023
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People throw around the term loosely to describe those who are self-absorbed, entitled and manipulative – from overbearing parents to destructive exes.
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Nicole Fallert,
USA TODAY,
24 Mar. 2023
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Double-dealing, self-absorbed and relentlessly ambitious, the most prominent of them were usually appalling.
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Catherine Ostler,
WSJ,
24 Mar. 2023
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Howie’s mental meanderings are maniacally self-absorbed in a way Castro’s narrator worries is true of his own roiling, recursive thoughts.
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Nathan Goldman,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2023
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Unbeknownst to juror Gladden, his oddball cohorts and other courtroom figures for the (fake) trial are all paid performers — including James Marsden, who plays a self-absorbed, caricatured version of himself.
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James Mercadante,
EW.com,
30 May 2024
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In short order and in this bucolic setting, Leon proves to be an irritable jerk: self-absorbed, painfully insecure, perpetually annoyed, snobbish, and at times reflexively cruel.
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco,
Vogue,
14 July 2023
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