self-involved
Example Sentences
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The British novelist Gwendoline Riley introduces her narrator, Laura, through a series of episodes that capture her uneasy foray into adulthood—caught between her working-class origins and her new place among London’s creatively ambitious, self-involved elite.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
And misogyny isn’t exactly the point; he’s just a self-involved, insecure egotist.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
They made him the sane man in an elaborate joke that co-starred James Marsden playing a self-involved yet somehow likable parody of himself.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025
In one scene, the wildly self-involved protagonist fantasizes about her own funeral.
From New York Times • May 17, 2023
“He was too busy being adorably self-involved to notice,” Hassan interjected.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
