self-affected

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-affected
Adjective
  • Of those who responded to our informal survey, 53% said love is more important.
    Rachel Barber, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Tire tread depth - Checking your tire tread before hitting the road is important, as low or no tread can lead to sliding.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And to see a very optimistic person come in and try to turn it around seems like a really cool story.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Kudesia said that some of her patients come in with overly optimistic views of how well treatments such as IVF can work.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Leaders can no longer afford to be complacent.
    Sarah Barnes-Humphrey, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Americans can no longer be complacent.
    The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Colletti played Chase Adams, a charming, yet self-centered, aspiring actor.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Robbie is a complicated man, at once incredibly compassionate and deeply self-centered, philosophical and brooding but also impulsive and hot-tempered.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The kooky characters surrounding Judge Stone included the conceited prosecutor Dan Fielding (John Larroquette), the imposing bailiff Bull Shannon (Richard Moll), and the idealistic public defender Christine Sullivan (Markie Post), each of whom had various quirks of their own.
    Dan Heching, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This is the worst kind of football team: a conceited but objectively mediocre squad.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The low-key setting — a 6-0 thrashing of third tier opposition in the Carabao Cup third round — does not diminish the quality of strikes that Gomez’s former Inter Miami team-mate Lionel Messi would have been proud of.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In the carousel, the proud parents shared the first photos of their newborn, as well as several pictures of their family of four.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • While The Morning Show presents the news business as glossy and glamorous (and often a little pompous), The Paper takes the opposite view with the documentary crew from The Office now focusing on a dying newspaper in Ohio.
    Emma Alpern, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Guigal’s strategy isn’t built on pompous conservatism, but in long-term thinking.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Aside from a light wash of rosy blush on her cheeks, the fashion mogul’s visage boasted white undertones, not a drop of bronzer in sight.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Levine Cava eventually agreed to restore the full funding, crediting rosier revenue forecasts as various county departments and independent agencies reported higher-than-expected surplus figures that could be used to pay for the nonprofit grants.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Self-affected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-affected. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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