Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having regard to one's self.
Wiktionary
- adj. considering foremost yourself and your own interests
Examples
“It's what philosophers might call a "self-regarding action", yes?”
“He saw her looking at him and smiled with a look of recognition that was proud, almost self-regarding.”
“In keeping with its maddening, self-regarding role as the American Pravda, a hand-wringing New York Times "analysis" worries that "the images could incite anti-American sentiment at a particularly delicate moment in the decade-old Afghan war.”
The Huffington Post: Ethan Casey: Marines Urinating on Dead Taliban: How Low Will We Go?
“Nicholas Woodeson savours every line of the rantipole, self-regarding Mr Prince who proudly announces "I am the American King Lear" and Keeley Hawes elegantly makes a case for Ben's reproving but desolate wife.”
The Guardian: Review | Theatre | Rocket to the Moon | Venue | Michael Billington
“Artist-film-maker Miranda July's wide-eyed kooky persona has never been more painfully self-regarding than it is in her drivelsome relationship break-up fantasy The Future.”
“Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory".”
“Raymond Depardon/Magnum Photos Ms. Appignanesi's rambling, minimally organized "All About Love" is a kind of case study that bolsters Mr. May's arguments about the displacement of religiosity by a mushy, self-regarding amorous sentimentality.”
“Perhaps they mean that death itself is peaceful, not that dying was so, for all too often it is not is partly a self-regarding, partly an other-regarding motive.”
The Guardian: Parliament's moral duty on assisted dying | Mary Warnock
“The outrageously self-regarding George then takes an onstage bow, largely ignoring his angry female co-star, before greeting fans on the sidewalk outside the cinema where he meets cute with Peppy.”
The Huffington Post: Nancy Chuda: The Artist: A Review With an Extra Big Shout Out to Uggy
“One by one, the self-regarding occupiers are being evicted.”
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