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self-indulgent /ˌsɛlfɪnˈdʌldʒ(ə)nt /adjective1Characterized by doing or tending to do exactly what one wants, especially when this involves pleasure or idleness: a self-indulgent extra hour of sleep...- What a message to us, with our extravagant, self-indulgent, hedonistic Western lifestyles.
- Hedonistic, self-indulgent, voluptuous societies succumb to their enemies and go under.
- Sensual and self-indulgent, they will pursue their pleasures as ardently and lustfully as they pursue their professional endeavors.
Synonyms pleasure-seeking, hedonistic, sybaritic, indulgent, luxurious, lotus-eating, epicurean; unrestrained, intemperate, immoderate, overindulgent, excessive, extravagant, fast-living, licentious, sensual, voluptuous, dissipated, dissolute, decadent 1.1(Of a creative work) lacking economy and control: boring, self-indulgent twenty-minute solos these are not the usual self-indulgent actor’s reminiscences...- The end result is a body of pretty-looking, but increasingly empty and self-indulgent work.
- His best work, though, is self-indulgent, redundant, and exasperating, and therein lay its charms.
- The new work is far more prolix, diffuse, and ultimately self-indulgent.
Derivativesself-indulgently adverb ...- Those characters who don't discipline their feelings, who don't understand what proper feeling is, or who behave self-indulgently are mocked and even despised.
- Sporting fewer trite poeticisms, the content of these songs comes across as less self-indulgently brooding - even occasionally bordering on optimistic.
- My fellow cellphone addict friends and I would call one another all day long to self-indulgently provide an ongoing commentary on our pathetic lives.
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