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Recent Examples of self-centered Billy and Peter systematically built a game-winning team off of statistics and budget, rather than investing the entire franchise's finances into players who were flashy, self-centered, or individually successful. Derek Scancarelli, EW.com, 27 June 2025 Compiled from Candace Bushnell’s column of the same name from The New York Observer, the book is a dark and bizarre look at dating in 1990s New York, where men are pathologically childish, cruel, and self-centered, and women are domineering, striving, and manipulative. Alice Bolin june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025 This includes uncouth habits like bad hygiene, inconsiderate acts like being self-centered or a violation of social norms. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025 Venis is ambitious, juvenile, and self-centered, even questioning whether other people are as real as him and his friends. Andrew R. Chow, Time, 31 May 2025 Trump is self-centered, boastful and uncaring about the needs of others. Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2025 The second thing is that a lot of our discussion about happiness is overly self-centered. Renée Onque, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025 Ava Daniels is a young comedy writer who is unable to find work due to an insensitive tweet and her reputation for being self-centered and arrogant. Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025 Real celebrities guest-starred in often awkward encounters with the always vain and self-centered Miss Piggy. James Mercadante, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-centered
selfish
Adjective
  • Her larger-than-life ego and past as a shaman make Player 044 come off as arrogant and selfish, getting under just about everyone's skin.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 July 2025
  • While the Great Lakes tunnel has been pitched as a safer option than leaving Line 5 alone without secondary containment, Gravelle said that's a narrow and selfish view.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025

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“Self-centered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-centered. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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