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Definition of Self-indulgent
1. Adjective. Indulgent of your own appetites and desires. "A self-indulgent...way of looking at life"
Definition of Self-indulgent
1. Adjective. Exhibiting tendencies of self-indulgence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-indulgent
Literary usage of Self-indulgent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Careless and self-indulgent, he allowed dangers to accumulate; but whenever it
came to action he was firm and decisive. His familiarity with the wives of ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... in which he reproaches them for the self-indulgent lives they are leading.
Other works of the loth century are the ..."
3. William Ellery Channing: A Centennial Memory by Charles Timothy Brooks (1880)
"Was Channing self-indulgent? — Channing is a noble example of the power of patient
self- study and self-discipline to make a man an efficient servant of ..."
4. William Ellery Channing: A Centennial Memory by Charles Timothy Brooks (1880)
"'Was Charming self-indulgent? — Channing is a noble example of the power of
patient self- study and self-discipline to make a man an efficient servant of ..."
5. Conduct and Its Disorders: Biologically Considered by Charles Arthur Mercier (1911)
"ACTION AS self-indulgent OR SELF- RESTRAINED THE more purely instinctive an act
remains, the more immediately and directly does it serve its purpose; ..."
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