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self-entitled

self-entitled adjective: having a baseless sense of self-importance and of deserving special consideration.

Adjective

self-entitled (comparative more self-entitled, superlative most self-entitled)

  1. Having a baseless sense of self-importance and of deserving special consideration.
    • Near-synonym: self-important
    • Although the patient may evidence attitudes of self-entitled indulgence coexisting with these ideals of generosity and altruistic self-denial, the appeal to the ideals (if skillfully made) may serve the therapeutic purposes well.2004 [1998], Althea J. Horner, Object Relations and the Developing Ego in Therapy, second edition, Rowman & Littlefield, page 237
    Synonyms:
    self-important

Examples of self-entitled in a sentence

  • But to keep up the show in front of her 75 guests, Lorraine needed to become intoxicated and thus not apparently responsible for her self-entitled show-off behavior.1995, John Oldham, Lois B. Morris, The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do, Random House, page...
  • The H Factor of Personality: Why Some People are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive — And Why It Matters for Everyone (booktitle)2013, Kibeom Lee, Michael C. Ashton, The H Factor of Personality: Why Some People are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and...

Synonyms of self-entitled

Antonyms

Forms of self-entitled

comparativemore self-entitled
superlativemost self-entitled

Origin of self-entitled

From self- + entitled.

Questions about self-entitled

What does self-entitled mean?
Self-entitled means having a baseless sense of self-importance and of deserving special consideration.
How do you use self-entitled in a sentence?
But to keep up the show in front of her 75 guests, Lorraine needed to become intoxicated and thus not apparently responsible for her self-entitled show-off behavior.
What part of speech is self-entitled?
Self-entitled is an adjective.

Words near self-entitled in the dictionary

  1. self-energies
  2. self-energising
  3. self-energizing
  4. self-energy
  5. self-enforcing
  6. self-entitled
  7. self-enucleate
  8. self-enucleated
  9. self-enucleates
  10. self-enucleating
  11. self-enucleation

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