Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Well-affected toward one's self; self-loving.

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Examples

  • Their slightest charities aggrandized, their failings easily forgiven and forgotten, inculpable colossi towering over their lessers, imposing themselves and shattering lives with a casual indifference born of self-affected ambition.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • Their slightest charities aggrandized, their failings easily forgiven and forgotten, inculpable colossi towering over their lessers, imposing themselves and shattering lives with a casual indifference born of self-affected ambition.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

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