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Meanings of self-indulgence in English

Catalan
intemperància

Excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence.

        intemperància
        Portuguese
        indulgência
        Catalan
        indulgència
        Spanish
        indulgencia

        An inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires.

              indulgência
              Usage of self-indulgence in English
              1
              Photo: Facebook Robert Semoso accused the Momis governments of self-indulgence and mismanagement.
              Radio NZ
              2
              God loves in us the self-mastery that scorns to compromise with self-indulgence.
              Men in the Making
              3
              But the misery is entirely the result of human ignorance and self-indulgence.
              Thrift
              4
              It is wrong to spend two months in self-indulgence without any self-discipline.
              Stray Thoughts for Girls
              5
              Luck slips downwards to self-indulgence; Labour strides upward, and aspires to independence.
              Thrift
              6
              In my view that is a piece of self-indulgence Labour cannot afford.
              The Guardian
              7
              But he had to work hard, and must have some little self-indulgence.
              The Last Penny and Other Stories
              8
              He would drop her to-morrow, so that he could please his self-indulgence.
              Caught in the Net
              9
              I am a creature of low habits, a man sodden with self-indulgence.
              No Defense, Volume 3.
              10
              He also was young, but nothing about him suggested power, only self-indulgence.
              The World for Sale, Volume 1.
              11
              But I didn't know that you regarded my work as self-indulgence altogether.
              The Story of a Play / A Novel
              12
              If that were true, Celia, my giving-up would be self-indulgence, not self-mortification.
              Middlemarch
              13
              Would the bitter issue of that self-indulgence not make him wary now?
              Idolatry: A Romance
              14
              You'd hate Uncle Carroll's idleness and abominable self-indulgence worse than you do.
              Mr. Scarborough's Family
              15
              The cedar for self-indulgence, and the curtains for the home of worship!
              My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
              16
              What is the meaning of all this gluttony, this waste, this self-indulgence?
              The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
              Frequent collocations
              Translations for self-indulgence
              Portuguese
              indulgência
              Self-indulgence through the time