self-affected

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-affected
Adjective
  • Finer says, tensely, that, at end of day, Liv savvy, Liv smart, Liv too egotistical to kill self.
    George Saunders, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • There’s no egotistical rock star bullsh**t going on here.
    Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Ensuring Resonance: Connecting Emotionally for Commitment While data and logic are important, influence ultimately hinges on emotional connection.
    Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Strength and conditioning is super important as well.
    Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Surround Yourself with Positive Influences Entrepreneurs and investors who network with forward-thinking, optimistic individuals are more likely to maintain a long-term perspective on financial growth.
    Shane Enete, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Analysts are optimistic on the stock’s upward potential, even as Target shares have suffered.
    Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Though Barrera has written most of Grupo Frontera’s songs so far, along with other writers like Ríos, the band feared becoming complacent by always yielding those creative duties to someone else.
    Paula Mejía, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Tobin Marcus of Wolfe Research warned us yesterday--when stocks were only down half a percent--that the market was still being way too complacent about today’s tariff risk.
    Kelly Evans, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s plenty such wordplay in The Safe House, to the point that the movie can seem like a caricature of overeducated, perpetually growling Parisians shouting for social change, but too self-centered and comfortable in their bourgeois lifestyles to do anything drastic about it.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Sitting on the sidelines and labeling someone else as self-centered is easy.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This is the worst kind of football team: a conceited but objectively mediocre squad.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • James, the proud dad was caught on camera celebrating the win like his own team had won the championship.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Jaylon is a proud alumnus of the University of Georgia.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, this adaptation of an O. Henry story tilts all its sympathies toward the outlaw hero the Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter, in a Best Actor–winning role) and away from the pompous white soldier charged with tracking him down.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
  • And every scene and song featuring the hilarious Eric Anderson as the pompous and preening Union Gen. George B. McClellan is a comic gem.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Self-affected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-affected. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

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