单词 | self-intoxicated |
释义 | self-intoxicatedadj. Intoxicated by oneself, or by one's own eloquence, power, appearance, etc.; excessively vain, arrogant, or self-obsessed. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [adjective] > preoccupied with self self-central1642 selfy1643 self-centred1645 self-concerned1653 self-involved1785 self-conscious1825 self-intoxicated1847 self-obsessed1878 egocentric1900 1847 S. Coleridge Let. 12 Oct. in Mem. & Lett. (1873) II. xiii. 143 I marvel how you can admit him to be a hero..—look upon him as a religious demagogue, a ‘self-intoxicated man’. 1905 G. B. Shaw Irrational Knot 181 Uncle Reginald..has taken part..against you with a self-intoxicated fool whom he ought to have put out of the house. 1985 R. Goldstein in J. Antler Amer. & I (1990) 286 I took Introduction to Philosophy with a self-intoxicated young professor, a new Ph.D. from Harvard. 2019 Guardian (Nexis) 26 Sept. If his party had some notion that the mantle of office would sober up this self-intoxicated scoundrel, they were wrong. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < adj.1847 |
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