self-centred


adjective
  1. totally preoccupied with one's own concerns

Derived forms of self-centred

  • self-centredly, adverb
  • self-centredness, noun

Words Nearby self-centred

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How to use self-centred in a sentence

  • 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 Wave | Algernon Blackwood
  • The self-centred, confident man in him that deemed itself indispensable must crumble.

    The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
  • What have we to do with such dreamy, self-centred, emotional holiness, here and now in London?

    God and my Neighbour | Robert Blatchford
  • 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.

    The Open Question | Elizabeth Robins