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self-involved
[ self-in-volvd, self- ]
adjective
- another term for self-absorbed:
That video game had him so self-involved he never heard us pounding on the door.
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-involved1
Example Sentences
Alcoholic, narcissistic, self-involved… and did we mention hilarious?
We take on the gamut of recent confessionals, from the sickeningly self-involved to the extremely endearing.
The bustle of the newsroom is a mere backdrop for self-involved characters to give talky speeches and taunt each other.
As a little girl, Jane was enamored of her father, but he was too self-involved to notice.
The value of the egregiously self-involved twenty- or thirtysomething woman-trying-to-get-her-life-together voice is its urgency.
She was not one of those self-involved women always studying their own emotions; she was simply true to the light within her.
There was silence for a moment, and one after another met my roving glance with a thoughtful, self-involved and retrospective eye.
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