self-affected

Definition of self-affectednext

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Adjective
  • To address those concerns, Hulls has committed roughly $15 million to establish the Good Luck Fund, which acquires and preserves properties considered important to the community.
    Kenny Choi, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • What are the most important values of the community that the superintendent must honor regardless of pressure or politics?
    Samuel O’Neal June 25, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
Adjective
  • By the end of the episode, there is reason to feel optimistic, and not just because Jimmy may have found a solution to his and the restaurant’s financial problems.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • The work is making sure the assumptions underneath them are honest rather than inherited from an optimistic seller.
    Tony Julianelle, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Adjective
  • This is not the time to get complacent.
    Lisa Rivera, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
  • Larson is in a position to play a leading role in protecting our benefits, which are at increasing risk from this administration and complacent Republicans.
    Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2026
Adjective
  • His new wife is demanding and self-centered, with clear narcissistic traits.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 8 June 2026
  • That’s a big step forward for the character who’s sometimes been a little self-centered in the past.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
Adjective
  • Avoid Burying Praise in Negatives To avoid making children too conceited, parents might bury praise in the midst of negatives.
    Wayne Parker, Parents, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The Pitt definitely feels like the type of workplace where conceited doctors-in-training are pretty much guaranteed to quickly get knocked down a peg.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Mamdani, proud of his socialist values, had developed a language for communicating a collective, interdependent vision of city life through his consistent emphasis on affordability.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • This is also where the film dips into the past and becomes awash in the proud history of Hawaiian surfing, bowing at the legend of the great Duke Kahanamoku and going deep into others and how the sport became such a religion for many, notably devotee Kristen.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 22 June 2026
Adjective
  • Among them a City boy wearing three Fit-Bit-type devices, two beautiful Middle Eastern sisters, an outrageously pompous elderly American (sorry; eavesdropping), and several Imelda Marcos lookalikes, tottering out of the treatment rooms with, somehow, their elaborate hairstyles still intact.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • The usually pompous Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9th had to be pared down for fear of Ukrainian drones.
    Natasha Lindstaedt, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
Adjective
  • The picture isn’t entirely rosy.
    Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026
  • As for glam, Chopra Jonas went minimalist, wearing her hair down with soft waves and a middle part and opting for signature makeup elements like bold brows, lined eyes, and a rosy lip.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 25 June 2026
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“Self-affected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-affected. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.

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