self-regarding

Adjective

Meaning

self-regarding

considering oneself and one's own interests before others

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

egotistical egoistic egocentric narcissistic egotistic self-centred self-interested self-loving

Examples

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. Nadine Gordimer

It is easy to distinguish the evil worked by sin and vice, but the trained eye sees also the evil done by self-righteous or self-regarding virtue. Sri Aurobindo

America's media seem utterly lacking in introspection. Do they understand why so many people hate them so? Do they care? Are they so smugly self-righteous and self-regarding they cannot see? Pat Buchanan

Close letter words and terms

self-refutation self-refute self-regard self-regenerating self-regenerating script self-regeneration