self-absorbed
Example Sentences
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You can’t really blame them if their response to the self-absorbed internal monologues of an unreliable narrator is, Oh, boo hoo.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
He does things his own way and there are times, like last week, when that makes him appear self-absorbed - a trait that does not usually play well in a golf locker room.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Before long the two young servants, superior to and saner in every way than their self-absorbed and snobbish employers, are chastely courting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
In Tim Burton’s breakthrough film, O’Hara played tragically hip Delia Deetz, the pretentious and self-absorbed stepmother of Winona Ryder’s Lydia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
The air fairly hummed with their daybreak activity: beetles and birds and squirrels and ants, and countless other things unseen, all gentle and self-absorbed and not in the least alarming.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
