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narcissistic
[ nahr-suh-sis-tik ]
adjective
- having an undue fascination with oneself; vain.
- Psychiatry. relating to, characterized by, or exhibiting narcissistic personality disorder ( def ).
- Psychoanalysis. tending to derive erotic gratification from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes.
Other Word Forms
- Բ···پ·· adverb
- ԴDz·Բ···پ adjective
- ܲ·Բ···پ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of narcissistic1
Example Sentences
After five seasons, Penn Badgley says goodbye to the narcissistic sociopath character he portrayed in “You.”
I don’t like supporting the narcissistic elements of him.
But Jonas' appointment faced a backlash in right-wing circles, as in a 2020 speech he called Trump a "racist homophobe" and a "narcissistic right-winger".
As O’Toole also observes, Trump’s anti-European animus has a potent psychosexual subtext, simultaneously rooted in right-wing American macho posturing and his own infantile sense of narcissistic injury.
In one 2020 tweet, Schleifer accused Trump of eroding constitutional integrity “every day with every lie and every act of heedless, narcissistic corruption.”
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