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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“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
Then one day the game seems like just what we need again — proud of itself, but not self-infatuated.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2016
“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
Besides, they still love each other, or as much as the terminally self-infatuated can love somebody else.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2015
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
