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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-indulgent
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bobbi's just a spoiled and self-indulgent rich kid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But we can not afford to be so self-indulgent and dismissive.
▪ Equal parts amusing and excruciating to watch, this self-indulgent sojourn in suburbia is certainly no Defending Your Life.
▪ For anyone else this is a self-indulgent luxury.
▪ It made her lazy, it made her rather self-indulgent.
▪ Oh, not forgetting a stack of self-indulgent musical wanderings.
▪ She turned herself over in her bed, and snuggled down for an extra, self-indulgent and rare hour of sleep.
▪ She was all soft and loose and self-indulgent.
▪ This requires that we give up foolish, immoral reading, or reading to acquire power, or reading that is self-indulgent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-indulgent

Self-indulgent \Self`-in*dul"gent\, a. Indulging one's appetites, desires, etc., freely.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
self-indulgent

also self indulgent, 1791, from self- + indulgent. Related: Self-indulgently.

Wiktionary
self-indulgent

a. Exhibiting tendencies of self-indulgence.

WordNet
self-indulgent

adj. indulgent of your own appetites and desires; "a self-indulgent...way of looking at life"- Havelock Ellis

Usage examples of "self-indulgent".

He wore a gold watch that was a cheap knockoff of a gawdy Rolex, and he looked the part of a fat, self-indulgent businessman taking it easy while his minions worked their asses off to give him the good life.

Clare was good-natured and self-indulgent, and sought to buy off with presents and flatteries.

I used the blade of cooperativeness, of virtue, of diligence, of punctuality to proclaim myself on my moral superiority as a woman, above the self-indulgent, contaminating weaknesses of their piteous need.

As those adept at numerological mysticism adjusted to the Copernican system, this self-indulgent mode of thinking spilled over from planets to moons.

She would catch up on all the little self-indulgent activities that she had let slide, neglected, while she investigated the datablock.

According to her, the students and faculty at Bass were a pack of freaks and losers, and the parents of the Bass kids were snobby self-indulgent artsy-fartsy crypto-Heritagist poseurs trying to buy themselves the illusion that their neurotic drug-addicted promiscuous bulimic dyslexic brats had one single grain of brains or talent.

He hated playing second fiddle to Franklin, and by the year's end, to judge by a letter written to James Warren, Franklin's self-indulgent, self-serving ways had become nearly more than Adams could bear, for though he mentioned no name, it was obvious whom he meant.

It carried food, wines, a library that was all the most self-indulgent dictator could want to while away those long, dull days in space.