How to Use self-absorbed in a Sentence

self-absorbed

adjective

• On the dark side, be wary of coming across as selfish and self-absorbed when your needs aren't met.
  — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
• There's no market for a self-absorbed, past his prime, locker room cancer?
  — Dianna Russini, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
• To that end, yes, honeymoon phases are gushy (and self-absorbed).
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
• My sibling is loving, kind and generous — as well as self-absorbed.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• Life in the middle, utterly self-absorbed.
  — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
• Smart played Winslet’s mother, Helen, who is both all-seeing and self-absorbed.
  — J Wortham, New York Times, 12 May 2024
• For the moment at least, no one can accuse me of being self-absorbed and neglectful, either.
  — Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
• Those today with the best levels of executive presence are not self-absorbed.
  — Adrian Gostick, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• However, these terms are often used with a note of derision, applied to someone who is self-absorbed.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• Journalists can be a hyper-competitive bunch who grow self-absorbed under the stress of tight deadlines and long hours.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2024
• Marty is self-absorbed, forgetful, doesn’t much like people and spends hours online looking for advice about how to be a handyman.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2026
• Carrie already knew that her father was self-absorbed and irresponsible.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
• This new gaggle of mostly privileged Americans remain as flawed and self-absorbed as ever, too.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2025
• If someone calls you self-absorbed, consider whether that person has a point or is projecting their own insecurities.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• Or as desperate as affluent people can be while also being completely self-absorbed.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
• Teens and young adults have been self-absorbed with appearance since at least the Boomer generation began coming of age in the rock-and-roll ’50s.
  — Greg Petro, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
• The choice to portray her as irritating, self-absorbed, whiny and inappropriate was no accident.
  — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026
• The hotel guests are sometimes too self-absorbed to notice, but this season amps up the terrors lurking around every corner in the week leading to the mysterious death.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
• Harris notes the assumptions of all childfree people being self-absorbed, hating children, and not contributing to society ignore the truth.
  — Essence, 1 Aug. 2024
• The Lacobs were ultimately too risk-averse, too cautious, and too self-absorbed to build anything of worth without their former general manager.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
• Double-dealing, self-absorbed and relentlessly ambitious, the most prominent of them were usually appalling.
  — Catherine Ostler, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
• At this moment the endless analysis and scolding being put forward about what college students were too self-absorbed to grasp about the 2024 election is not helpful.
  — Nicolaus Mills, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2025
• People throw around the term loosely to describe those who are self-absorbed, entitled and manipulative – from overbearing parents to destructive exes.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• Brilliant and brave, the poet and soldier was also entirely self-absorbed, turning the Adriatic city into his own personal manuscript.
  — Ed Simon june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
• His decision marks the end of a stunning transformation for Loki, from selfish and self-absorbed to someone willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the universe.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
• Zoey Johnson Zoey, the fashion-forward and occasionally self-absorbed eldest Johnson child.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 24 Sep. 2024
• Howie’s mental meanderings are maniacally self-absorbed in a way Castro’s narrator worries is true of his own roiling, recursive thoughts.
  — Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• Hot stone massages, private yoga, every possible amenity, and also rude, self-absorbed, and entitled rich people in every lounge chair, chasing status and self-improvement, conscious of every flaw but their own.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
• Although Kilmer had gained a reputation for being antagonistic and self-absorbed early in his career, the actor captured the screen with his magnetic and striking performances.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
• Yes, the characters can be frustratingly self-absorbed, but Hogan and Woyasz might summon up your sympathy for this pair that became parents too early and have never really gotten the hang of the job.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 25 Feb. 2026