Sample Sentences for
narcissism
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    "I'm too ugly to be a narcissist," he said.  (source)
    narcissist = person with exceptional admiration of themselves
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    Really, the narcissism of today's youth!†  (source)
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    I also left room for the possibility that they had adapted to this dynamic out of necessity, the quiet daughter eclipsed by the attention-diverting self-absorbed mother routine, that Madaline's narcissism was perhaps an act of kindness, of maternal protectiveness.†  (source)
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    This correspondence, as one might expect, reflected sharply divergent points of view: Some readers admired the boy immensely for his courage and noble ideals; others fulminated that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity, and was undeserving of the considerable media attention he received.†  (source)
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    And that narcissism will soon doom him.†  (source)
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    I worried that I was just being melodramatic or narcissistic.†  (source)
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    He was successful over half the time, which wasn't bad, considering the cases were usually damning, the accused extremely unlikable—cheaters, narcissists, sociopaths.†  (source)
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    "And you should have just seen my little feet twinkle up Sargent and around the corner into Bailey Place," was the way she narcissistically painted her flight.†  (source)
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    What's so urgent, you little narcissist?†  (source)
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    At a tender age he had developed mange, or leprosy, or some other such infantile disease, and had lost all his hair, never to recover it — a tragedy which may have had a bearing on the fact that, when I knew him, he had already devoted fifteen years of his life to a study of the relationship between summer molt and incipient narcissism in pocket gophers.†  (source)
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    "She's the least narcissistic woman I've ever met," one of the woman interns told me.†  (source)
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    I had deigned to sleep only with tall, exotically handsome narcissists in the past.†  (source)
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    Mr. McArdle played leading roles on no fewer than three daytime radio serials when he was in New York, and he had what might be called a third-class leading man's speaking voice: narcissistically deep and resonant, functionally prepared at a moment's notice to outmale anyone in the same room with it, if necessary even a small boy.†  (source)
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