self-indulgence
Example Sentences
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Jobs may have been a leading preacher of Silicon Valley’s gospel of failure as a steppingstone to success, but his own self-indulgence nearly turned NeXT into a trek to nowhere.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
In my hospital bed, I turned the camera on myself, not as a self-indulgence, but to spotlight a nasty cancer that’s hard to treat and even harder to beat.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2024
Accompanied by a string quartet, it seems, by that point, less like theatrical excavation than self-indulgence.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024
This demand gives the lie to a common misconception of liberalism, namely, that it is an ethic of insouciant self-indulgence, a politics for blithe egoists.
From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023
Schooled to believe that self-indulgence of any kind was morally unacceptable, Ellen was deeply ashamed of her dependency upon coffee.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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