infatuate
verb (used with object)
to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
self-infatuated
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a word derived from
infatuate.
Example Sentences
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But stubborn, self-infatuated leaders sometimes do stupid things.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
“He’d circle me in great fugues of self-infatuated improv, doing voices, abruptly changing dialogue or the names of characters, forcing me to hurriedly xxxxxxx out endless lines on the Canon Typestar.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
“I mean, I knew Lee Siegel was a self-infatuated jerk, but this takes it to a new level,” tweeted John Podhoretz.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2015
And in “4,” her new piece now showing at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she emerges as the most pretentious artist of my entire experience, and among the most self-infatuated.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2014
The first impulse of our revulsion from the self-infatuated poet is to confute him with the potent name of Aristotle, and show him his doom foreordained in the book of poetic Revelations.
From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins
