How To Use Self-centred In A Sentence

  • They are selfish, self-centred and bad team players. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jeopardy was selfish and self-centred, but irresistibly compelling.
  • Robert is a self-centred, ambitious and bigoted man.
  • Above all, they are apt to be self-centred and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbours and communities.
  • Well, if he is two-faced, self-centred, plausibly insincere, manipulative and insensitive… be concerned.
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  • He should have known better. But he was blinded by his own self-centredness.
  • Self-centredness is the source of all downfalls; cherishing others is the source of all happiness and success. The sound of one hand clapping: Zen Pen
  • So it's always very important to talk about the different balances between confidence and being assertive about your views rather than arrogant and self-centred about them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Above all, they're apt to be self-centred and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbours or communities.
  • He could be, and often was, called egotistical, self-centred, domineering and sneering; but at least one knew that the total effect was there because he meant it: he found it temperamentally impossible to be a creep. The Guardian World News
  • Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe.
  • In spite of the invasion of its fertile valleys by Ayrshire dairy farmers it has remained the old Free Province, a little anti-Scottish, a good deal anti-Irish, excessively anti-English, self-centred, self-satisfied, quarrel-some and _frondeur_, yet in the main politically conservative. Patsy
  • Sometimes I think it truly self-centred and self-indulgent to believe that you hold an opinion that so many people could be interested in.
  • It's basically a self-centred group, whose members always thought and talked about themselves.
  • So, to love in a less self-centred way? Times, Sunday Times
  • She has to dress as a man to survive in the ruthless and self-centred world of the panners and fend off all kinds of unwanted, and hilarious, attentions as she bravely strives to get her man and revenge her family.
  • These are obviously self-centred and cold-hearted individuals who care only for their well-being and betterment.
  • AnAsia bond would not be a self-centred zero- sum game.
  • Sikhs try to avoid the five vices that make people self-centred, and build barriers against God in their lives.
  • Above all, they are apt to be self-centred and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbours and communities.
  • In the meantime, the need for large homesites spread over vast tracts of land prevails, because people are too self-centred to think of protecting the environment.
  • It is a good metaphor for the self-centredness of the production itself - the dramatic stripped away in favour of actorly seriousness.
  • Girls this age are urgent and unsure about the gravitational pull of self-centredness … beauty … vanity. Hello, Princess | Her Bad Mother
  • Looking at your situation from the outside, your behaviour is very self-centred. Times, Sunday Times
  • If it does come, it would be triggered by the naked greed of a nation that is selfish and self-centred to the point of gross stupidity.
  • The other characters are, without exception, vapid, obnoxious and self-centred.
  • Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred.
  • Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe.
  • Above all, they're apt to be self-centred and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbours or communities.
  • The ‘gimmick’ of the show is that it is relentlessly fast paced, with multiple storylines, and characters who seem at times to be superhumanly capable, and at other times to be the most annoying self-centred arrogant prigs on the planet.
  • It is therefore inconsonant with RDP objectives to approach the defects warranty scheme in a selfish and self-centred manner. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • At the centre of it all is a shallow self-centred consumerism, coupled with a debilitating absence of fear and reverence for God.
  • The same policies that have destroyed our public services and infrastructure, as well as creating a mindless, self-centred society, where a drug taking mugger is reggarded as being morally equivalent to you or I, he’s not bad you understand – just different! Ruralshire Constabulary – General Election Advice « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Yet Phil Woolas, the immigration minister (and, as I well remember a nasty little self-centred careerist when he was head of the National Union Students in my college days - a real horrible little greasy pole climber who obviously hasn't changed one jot) continues to prevaricate and pettifog. Global Voices in English » The Gurkhas: Long History Of Discrimination
  • He portrays the fight with self-centredness as a dramatic struggle between the aspiring bodhisattva self and the old selfish self. The Third Dalai Lama's Refined Gold & Shantideva's Guide
  • Normal polite, generous people seem to turn into very selfish, self-centred individuals once they light up a cigarette.
  • She's more generous and less self-centred than me. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now when you look at yourself as an ego, the self, the self-centred entity, what is it?
  • Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe.
  • Poets are selfish, self-centred people who regard neighbours as noisy interruptions rather than deserving objects in need of a helping hand.
  • They do, on occasion, have pangs of conscience regarding self-centredness.
  • If it does come, it would be triggered by the naked greed of a nation that is selfish and self-centred to the point of gross stupidity.
  • This self-centredness bothered some of his followers, who quit after the party's dismal electoral performance.
  • Sometimes I think it truly self-centred and self-indulgent to believe that you hold an opinion that so many people could be interested in.
  • The powers remain, but they now follow the inclinations of man's perverted and self-centred heart.
  • Normal polite, generous people seem to turn into very selfish, self-centred individuals once they light up a cigarette.
  • Just as dangerous, just as self-centred, as in its small way is that vegetative organism the volvox, which, when food is scarce and the race is threatened, against possible need of insemination, creates separate husband cells to starve in clusters, while ` she 'hogs all the food-supply for the production of eggs. She Stands Accused
  • As comely and as able-bodied as a young pantheress, she was (one judged) little less dangerous -- as vital, as self-centred, as deadly. The Day of Days An Extravaganza
  • But right now you are coming across as arrogant, self-centred and a bit obnoxious. The Sun
  • Because the stronger our sense of self-centredness the greater is our unease, whereas the more we are concerned about others, the more secure we feel. Shantideva's Wisdom Chapter
  • If it does come, it would be triggered by the naked greed of a nation that is selfish and self-centred to the point of gross stupidity.
  • On the contrary, they are all self-centred, money-grubbing social climbers.
  • Most important was generating concern for others, which overcomes self-centredness. Dhammapada and the Jataka Tales
  • It's self-centred, self-interested pleading at its worst.
  • It's self-centred, self-interested pleading at its worst.
  • This particular image consultant appears to have neglected his own image, or maybe he is just happy with being cynical, self-centred, irascible and insufferable.
  • And that can make you selfish and self-centred. Times, Sunday Times
  • Judge said she was manipulative, self-centred and had a temper. The Sun
  • These are obviously self-centred and cold-hearted individuals who care only for their well-being and betterment.
  • Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred.
  • In the first phase of his public career before 1914 he was widely regarded as a young man in a hurry who was self-centred and excitable.
  • She sounds totally self-centred and is showing you no consideration. The Sun
  • Well, if he is two-faced, self-centred, plausibly insincere, manipulative and insensitive… be concerned.
  • That can seem like a loss of regard for others’ feelings, as if we had become more self-centred, the ‘me-generation’ in Tom Wolfe's deprecatory phrase.
  • Your boyfriend is totally self-centred. The Sun
  • Bruce Willis, for one, is unlikely to include him on his Christmas card list after Grant complained about his self-centred behaviour - they were in the megaflop Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • They do, on occasion, have pangs of conscience regarding self-centredness.
  • She is such a virago, so self-centred, and even self-indulgent that she seems to care for nothing except her own career.
  • It's basically a self-centred group, whose members always thought and talked about themselves.
  • It was as if they still retained more of the ingenuousness of primitive womanhood than she, and thus she "circumnavigated" them, while they, all too self-centred, had barely discovered in which hemisphere her shores were to be found. Too Old for Dolls A Novel
  • We must put up with their boringness and self-centredness, in the hope that they will put up with ours. Times, Sunday Times
  • There had been so much to admire in Ewan, even though he'd been so self-centred.
  • He was self-centred, but he wasn't cruel.
  • But the angry reaction to her comments rose to a new level today with blogs on the left and right accusing her of being self-centred and narcissistic.
  • It's self-centred, self-interested pleading at its worst.

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