How to Use narcissist in a Sentence

narcissist

noun
  • Or, what does the narcissist have to gain by doing this?
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • If a narcissist is being kind to you, ask yourself, what's the catch?
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Dano is known to play deranged narcissists, but is clearly beloved by those who work with him.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • All of these people are delusional narcissists; oh, to be one of them!
    Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
  • Perhaps gaslight and narcissist are headed there too.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Pony has been described as a tiny narcissist, while the large Bear is conflict-averse.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 28 Mar. 2026
  • This narcissist beloved by so many, a man who couldn’t stand being by himself, died in solitude.
    Charlotte Fox Weber, Time, 23 June 2023
  • Two are drug addicts and alcoholics, and one is a narcissist.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 27 July 2021
  • My sister sees my mother as a narcissist who plays the martyr and who failed to protect us.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Logan Paul is a narcissist that has no respect at all for the well-being of his fans.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The word 'narcissist' has been thrown around loosely to refer to toxic people.
    Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Learn about how partners of narcissists can be victims of emotional abuse.
    Claire Gillespie, Health, 1 May 2023
  • In this reimagining, Dan is still a narcissist and a buffoon.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Every bad person is a narcissist.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Not all narcissists are created equal.
    ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
  • My therapist suggested years ago that my sister-in-law may be a narcissist.
    Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • By this stage, the narcissist drops any and all pretense of empathy or confusion.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Aunt Debra is a terrible person—a thief, a narcissist, a liar, and a cheat.
    Max Berlinger, Town & Country, 13 Apr. 2023
  • However, my wife is also a narcissist from a long line of narcissists.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
  • But that version of myself who’s a narcissist totally would.
    Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 31 May 2026
  • Fisher called Saban a narcissist who probably should’ve been slapped more as a child.
    Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Victim-blaming is often the narcissist’s final blow, if not their last resort.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Dennis is a handsome man with ugly ways, a predatory narcissist who just happens to keep zip ties and duct tape in his trunk.
    Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • My sibling is a narcissist, and because of that, I was raised to never ask for or expect much of anything.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2023
  • These narcissists have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance.
    Patricia Fersch, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Jennifer Lopez has apparently known some narcissists in her life.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
  • Of the many incarnations of the narcissist, there is the braggart, and there is also the neurotic.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
  • But a malignant narcissist never forgets those kinds of insults.
    Chris Brennan, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Dan’s a narcissist, Beth is the adult child of alcoholics who has always been very capable, and now is helpless.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 May 2023
  • In relationships with narcissists, this strategy takes on many forms.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025

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