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形容詞

self-entitled (comparative more self-entitled, superlative most self-entitled)

1. Having a baseless sense of self-importance and of deserving special consideration.

   Antonym: self-deprecating

   Coordinate terms: self-righteous, self-assured

   Near-synonym: self-important

   • 2004 [1998], Althea J. Horner, Object Relations and the Developing Ego in Therapy‎, second edition, Rowman & Littlefield, page 237:

     Although the patient may evidence attitudes of self-entitled indulgence coexisting with these ideals of generosity and altruistic self-denial, the appeal to the ideals (if skillfully made) may serve the therapeutic purposes well.

   • 1995, John Oldham, Lois B. Morris, The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do‎, Random House, page 322:

     But to keep up the show in front of her 75 guests, Lorraine needed to become intoxicated and thus not apparently responsible for her self-entitled show-off behavior.

   • 2013, Kibeom Lee, Michael C. Ashton, The H Factor of Personality: Why Some People are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive — And Why It Matters for Everyone‎, Wilfrid Laurier University Press:

     The H Factor of Personality: Why Some People are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive — And Why It Matters for Everyone (booktitle)