Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Given to the undue indulgence or gratification of one's own passions, desires, or the like.
Wiktionary
- adj. Exhibiting tendencies of self-indulgence.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Indulging one's appetites, desires, etc., freely.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. indulgent of your own appetites and desires
Etymologies
- self- + indulgent (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I fell into a depression that might be called self-indulgent but was real just the same.”
“Clearly I had passed what Mr. Brown calls my "self-indulgent foodism" down to my two-year-old.”
“He thinks that architecture now tends to alternate between self-indulgent fireworks and acting as a tool of developers.”
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“They have to be careful not to get too sulky about parts of a project that are in the end self-indulgent.”
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“If Marvel did cancel Cloak and Dagger good for them because now she can devote more time to Vamptopia or whatever other self-indulgent crap she has going on.”
“David and Jaqueline Siegel, whose shameless and self-indulgent lifestyle was profiled in "The Wild Ride of the 1%" Review, Oct. 22, are the problem, not the banks or the politicians or Congress.”
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“And it comes at a time when other self-indulgent audience habits have become standard.”
“Looking back at my early writing, it really is some dreary, self-indulgent nonsense.”
“Sure, it does have long, self-indulgent spots, but the film remains ahead of its time to a remarkable degree.”
“Despite some overlong and self-indulgent sequences (such as the Japanese nightclub scene), the ambitious multi-country scope is handled well with several noteworthy performances.”
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