overprivileged
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of overprivileged
First recorded in 1910–15; over- ( def. ) + privileged ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Students and administrators alike hate him, and the feeling is mutual; terms Hunham describes his overprivileged charges with range from “genuine troglodytes” to “snarling Visigoths.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024
“The Song Between Worlds,” by Indrapramit Das: An overprivileged teen dragged to Mars on a family vacation stumbles beyond the cushy confines of their resort and encounters an entirely new form of musical performance.
From Slate • Dec. 31, 2019
The latter is basically an overgrown, overprivileged man-child; annoying but largely harmless.
From The Guardian • May 2, 2019
Even paranoids have enemies, as the saying goes, and even philistine university bureaucrats, it seems, do sometimes become reasonably exasperated by overprivileged and insulated academics.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 9, 2015
Like the other bachelorettes — and like so many overprivileged malcontents nowadays — she is looking in the wrong place for salvation: outside rather than within.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2012
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