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self-indulgently

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  • adverb in a self-indulgent manner

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Examples

  • Every little bit helps their situation - even if it's something as minor and simple as self-indulgently blogging about it.

    Alex Brant-Zawadzki: How to Lose Your Home: Curing My Perception Deficiency Alex Brant-Zawadzki 2011

  • The garrulity began with the nonfiction books, "Death in the Afternoon" 1932 and "Green Hills of Africa," both written self-indulgently in the first person.

    The Slow Crack-Up Allan Massie 2011

  • In contrast, the Eyeball, with its proud display of nineteenth-century eyeglasses and lenses in lacquered wooden vitrines, was almost self-indulgently anachronistic.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • In contrast, the Eyeball, with its proud display of nineteenth-century eyeglasses and lenses in lacquered wooden vitrines, was almost self-indulgently anachronistic.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • In contrast, the Eyeball, with its proud display of nineteenth-century eyeglasses and lenses in lacquered wooden vitrines, was almost self-indulgently anachronistic.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • In the second half of the book Zaeef self-indulgently descends into political preaching.

    Ehsan Azari: Tales of the Taliban in Their Own Words Ehsan Azari 2010

  • During the height of the troubles in the late '70s/early' 80s the IRA sympathising Catholic fraternity were known for supporting the Palestinian cause as they self-indulgently identified themselves with the "oppressed" & Palestinian flags were, at times, interchanged with Rep of Ireland flags.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • I, for one, am no more touched by Mr. Jackson's death than I am by the death of any of the thousands of other Americans who died last week, all of whom - like Mr. Jackson - are strangers to me and to the vast majority of people now so self-indulgently and flamboyantly grieving for a man they never met.

    Idolatry in a Free Society, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The colours and blurs that that memory conjures are too complex, and too self-indulgently unhappy, to write about, even obliquely; even now.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Imogen 2009

  • Voting in a general election is not meant to be a self-indulgently expressive act.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

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