Usage of "self-involved"

Absorbed in your own interests or thoughts etc.

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Examples for "self-absorbed"

And they say the youth of today are completely self-absorbed and unaware. 
 The frailty of flesh 

Gone was the self-absorbed, sulky look that he had mostly worn before. 
 The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga 

Peter sat in a corner, self-absorbed, staring gloomily out of the window. 
 Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 

And anyway it is generous of us not to be too self-absorbed. 
 This Simian World 

He would not pain His hosts by self-absorbed aloofness at the table. 
 Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV 

Uso de self-involved em inglês

We love self-involved names like Memi, which is of course pronounced Me! 
 Wired 

What you regard as reasonable, others may regard as a little too self-involved. 
 The South African 

I'm far from being the only person on earth who had self-involved parents. 
 Explosive 

I think it's because they're both creative and maybe just a bit self-involved. 
 Biggie and the devil diet 

Fancy those dark-eyed beggars and those calm-mouthed, cowy-men in this eager, self-involved republic. 
 Gala-Days 

He stood immovable, pale, cold, and self-involved, like a being from another sphere. 
 Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author 

So I'm here to tell you: Don't send me your self-involved AA nonsense. 
 Caught 

At this point, the self-involved Clintons seem like teen-agers finally going off to college. 
 The new yorker 

PROBLEM: How do I deal with extremely self-involved friends? 
 The Irish Times 

He went out with women young enough to be his children, and seemed entirely self-involved. 
 The cottage 

Both are absent and self-involved, both live out of themselves in a world of imagination. 
 Characters of Shakespeare's Plays 

All nations do this, but no nation does it with more self-involved hubris than England. 
 The Guardian 

They're too self-involved, wrapped up in their own stories. 
 Pandemonium 

Bottom line, he was becoming a whining, self-involved fool. 
 Surrender to the will of the night 

He was for the most part extremely self-involved. 
 Safe harbour 

It is a fatal flaw if we are to care for this essentially obnoxious, self-involved figure. 
 Reuters 

Significados de self-involved em inglês