self-regarding

adjective

1. self-centred; egotistical
2. philosophy (of an action) affecting the interests of no-one other than the agent, and hence, according to John Stuart Mill, immune from moral criticism

Example Sentences

In a voice-over, Trump says, “We didn’t lose one person in 18 months,” a self-regarding and entirely bogus claim he’s been making for the last few years.

From Los Angeles Times

“Furiosa,” to its distinction and detriment, ends up being too self-regarding, too downbeat.

From Los Angeles Times

And the film captures that rather stifling, self-regarding, claustrophobic palace world, which completely falls apart when confronted with Emily Maitlis's forensic questioning.

From BBC

The answer is unclear because much of the dislike of him lies more in feeling than analysis — a sense that he is somehow alien, too self-regarding, too enamored of his own voice, a man from “Jupiter” who does not know how to pat the backside of a cow, an essential French political qualification.

From New York Times

“So why does it all feel so laborious and overworked, so frantically self-regarding? It has something to do with the insipid quality of the songs, none of which threaten to lodge themselves in your brain the way the first movie’s lines so effortlessly do,” writes The Times’ film critic Justin Chang in his review of the adaptation.

From Los Angeles Times