self-indulgent
adjEtymology From self- + indulgent.
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Exhibiting tendencies of self-indulgence.
- It is not a refuge for self-indulgent monomaths to channelize their aggressions within a community of colleagues and students.1960, National Review, volume 8, page 52:
- I can assure him and others that I am more than willing to let feminist-separatists, male and/or female go their own gay way. Along with other extraneous and self-indulgent factions, they have been a diversionary and devisive ^([sic]) element.1978 April 8, Illogical Comprehension, “Rudy Grillo”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
- Derived terms
- self-indulgently