self-engrossed
- a word derived from engrossed.
Example Sentences
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The orgone box style of acting — hermetic, self-engrossed — is back with a vengeance.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2020
But of course the wild accusations, irrational behavior and self-engrossed eruptions didn’t end there.
From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2016
And while flat is the right TV answer for everyone but the self-engrossed bachelor, a curved computer monitor or all-in-one PC is something else entirely.
From The Verge • Jan. 16, 2015
I hate talking to a man who is too self-engrossed to pay me attention.
From Lover or Friend by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
And then she saw, what she had been too self-engrossed to see before, that fire had kindled fire indeed, and that those rash words of hers had waked the savage in him.
From The Odds And Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
