self-entitled
adjEtymology From self- + entitled.
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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:
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- 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 322:
- 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 Exploitive — And Why It Matters for Everyone, Wilfrid Laurier University Press: