self-centered

Example Sentences

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All of his successes have attracted critics worried he has become too powerful, too reckless, too self-centered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

Of course, you probably don’t mean all boomers are self-centered.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

She relocates “The Seagull,” as a program note specifies and her production flamboyantly conveys, “to the self-centered Me Generation of the ’70s that followed the social upheaval of the ’60s.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 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

Both were spoiled, driven, self-centered, quarrelsome, jealous, mistrustful, and ever unhappy.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson