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self-centred

adjective

  1. totally preoccupied with one's own concerns


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Derived Forms

  • ˌself-ˈcentredness, noun
  • ˌself-ˈcentredly, adverb

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Example Sentences

The biggest personality is Little My, utterly self-centred, mischievous, and rancidly funny.

Tony, less self-centred, less rigidly contained, had penetrated her by an understanding sympathy greater than his own.

The self-centred, confident man in him that deemed itself indispensable must crumble.

What have we to do with such dreamy, self-centred, emotional holiness, here and now in London?

All of their attention upon affairs of State is cast inward upon their own land, is absolutely self-centred.

And all the while about these two absorbed, self-centred women surged the turbulent life of the little town.

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