self-regarding

English

Etymology

self- +‎ regarding

Adjective

self-regarding

  1. considering oneself and one's own interests before others
    • 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance, Fourth Estate, page 171:
      [...] all adults seemed to her subjects for laughter, so self-regarding, so pretentious.
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