as in egotist
a person who is overly concerned with his or her own desires, needs, or interests
with the rise of TV reality shows, attention-craving narcissists had a public forum for their self-infatuation
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Recent Examples of narcissist
Over the course of his long political career, Cuomo has been accused of being stubborn, a bully, a womanizer and a narcissist.
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Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2025
The garden-variety narcissist needs to be the tallest tree in the forest.
—Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
But because it's thrown around loosely on social media, there's a false idea that narcissists are everywhere.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 28 Feb. 2025
Relationship challenges: People-pleasers are often targets for manipulative individuals in personal and professional settings, such as narcissists, psychopaths and sociopaths, who will prey on the kindness and need to please from the people-pleaser.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
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Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2025
The garden-variety narcissist needs to be the tallest tree in the forest.
—Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
But because it's thrown around loosely on social media, there's a false idea that narcissists are everywhere.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 28 Feb. 2025
Relationship challenges: People-pleasers are often targets for manipulative individuals in personal and professional settings, such as narcissists, psychopaths and sociopaths, who will prey on the kindness and need to please from the people-pleaser.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for narcissist
Noun
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At times, egoists can approach absurdity and drag their countries into outright disaster.—
Daniel Byman,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Oct. 2019
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McCarthy’s difficulties highlighted the power of hard-right extremists and social-media egoists among the fragile Republican majority in the House.—
Steve Coll,
The New Yorker,
5 Mar. 2023
Noun
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But this Ron Howard was an alternate universe version of Ron Howard, who instead of being notoriously nice, is sort of a jerk.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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Someone actually just said to me that all the men in the book are jerks.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
7 Mar. 2025
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Caro Stowell of Thomasville was dressed up like a clown.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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The White Lotus isn’t the only piece of content that’s down to clown with sibling-on-sibling action!—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Narcissist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narcissist. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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